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• Essential point or meaning of, say, the matter
• The essential point of the matter
• The central point of anything
• The essential point of something
• Essential idea
• General meaning or main point
• Central meaning or theme
• Substance or general idea
• The substance of this is that the American soldier is saintly
• The substance of this is that the American serviceman seems saintly
• The main point is that the American soldier is on the street
• After a polo start, this might make it the substance of one making excuses for it
• A Pole might be one to excuse the substance of this
• That's the burden of the American soldier and the saint
• Basic point