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nuts and bolts

noun

  1. the essential or basic aspects:

    to learn the nuts and bolts of a new job.



nuts and bolts

plural noun

  1. informal.
    the essential or practical details
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • Գܳٲ-Ի-DZٲ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nuts and bolts1

First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences

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Though financial therapy is increasing in popularity, it doesn’t necessarily get down to the nuts and bolts of your finances.

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Her firm, West Special Fasteners, makes nuts and bolts, and has been doing since 1999.

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He also extended the levies to include hundreds of metal products from nuts and bolts to drinks cans.

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He was the nuts and bolts of all of this s— .

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In turn, those qualities dictate the nuts and bolts of an actual intervention strategy.

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