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meat easy meat a person who is easily overcome or outwitted.
meat and mass never hindered man proverbial saying, early 17th century, indicating human need for physical and spiritual sustenance.
meat and potatoes in North American usage, basic and essential aspects.
one man's meat is another man's poison proverbial saying, late 16th century; the Roman poet Lucretius (c.94–55 bc) in his De Rerum Natura has the comment, ‘what is food to one person may be bitter poison to others’.

See also dead meat, God never sends mouths but He sends meat, God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks, the nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat, strong meat.

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