Fred was your meat-and-potatoes kind of guy. No creamy sauces for him.There is no point in trying to cook up something special for the Wilsons. They are strictly meat-and-potatoes.

Let's get down to bedrock and quit wasting time.This is bedrock—the truth.

You've been avoiding the bedrock issues all your life.Let's hear some more about these bedrock ideas.

This is a gut issue, and we have to deal with it now.We are not dealing with what I would call one of the gut matters of the day.

I want you to learn how to write well. You have to get down to the nuts and bolts of writing.She's got a lot of good, general ideas, but when it comes to the nuts and bolts of getting something done, she's no good.