nuts and bolts
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3.7
- noun
- /nʌts ənd boʊlts/
- Informal
:
los aspectos básicos
- The nuts and bolts of the connectivity may be an IT issue, but as an HR/recruiter, you own that.
- the nuts and bolts of the campaign
- the nuts and bolts of business
- the nuts and bolts of the project
So, so the science is revealing the nuts and bolts of how things work.
- So, so the science is revealing the nuts and bolts of how things work.
- I'm not going to go too much into nuts and bolts of Roggs.
- So that's the kind of nuts and bolts just to sort of lay the landscape out for you.
- These days there are certainly automated tools to make large scale deployments easier, but by and large the nuts and bolts work is still done exactly the same way.
- And so that's the nuts and bolts of what your screenplay is.
- And yeah, that's maybe the that's like the nuts and bolts of what mating looks like from a human perspective.
- I don't think we've ever released a more nuts and bolts practice program of things that you can literally just grab and send.
- Now, as you can see from the nuts and bolts, division was nontrivial, right?
- They're just, you know, they're just sort of very, you know, nuts and bolts kind of, you know, movie making.
- So, so MUFON is a very dry, you know what in the in the, in the litter, in the research community, there's like nuts and bolts researchers.
- We've been talking a lot about kind of the, the nuts and bolts of of growth mindset and stress is performance enhancing mindset.
Examples
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So, so the science is revealing the nuts and bolts of how things work.
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So I did my best to steer the conversation toward the nuts and bolts of the project.
Fiction book (2002) -
Maybe I just want a more nuts and bolts picture.
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In the first few classes, I began to master the nuts and bolts of magazine article writing and couldn't get enough of it.
Academic text (2010) -
That is pretty much the nuts and bolts of how to build a GracePort.
Blog text (12) -
What are the nuts and bolts of the extension provided in the stimulus package?
Blog text (23) -
When Ritchie was elected secretary of state six years ago, he focused on educating Minnesotans on the "nuts and bolts" of voting.
Blog text (14) -
Dr. Bruce Barringer of Oklahoma State University, who authored the bible of entrepreneurship, spoke about "the nuts and bolts of starting a business" to a packed session.
Blog text (26) -
Let's discuss the nuts and bolts of how this project will be implemented.
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The workshop focused on the nuts and bolts of building a successful business.
Synonyms
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4.6
The small steps and ways used to do something well in a skill or task
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The figurative meaning 'basic and practical details' follows directly from the literal parts 'nuts' and 'bolts' (small components that hold things together), so the extension to 'basic components' is highly motivated and easily inferable. This simple, cross-linguistically common metaphor makes the expression immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Nuts and bolts The phrase nuts and bolts comes from the small metal parts nuts and bolts that hold machines and objects together and are the simple, useful pieces of any tool or device. So, talking about the nuts and bolts of something means the 'basic and practical details' of how it works.