nutshell

Examples

• All

• There, in a nutshell, is the American vision, reduced from natural to positive law.

  Academic text (2018)

• The answer in a nutshell: to design and develop products and services.

  Academic text (2005)

• My childhood in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen.

  The Big Year (2011)

• And that, in a nutshell, is the Fox Books philosophy.

  You've Got Mail (1998)

• Their job, in a nutshell, was to take the war to the terrorists.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Ted, in a nutshell, all you have to do is hold the fort.

  Fiction book (1995)

• One female student expressed it in a nutshell: "Now I know how to analyze a problem and how to think."

  Academic text (2013)

• And that, in a nutshell, is how the quality movement arrived on the legal profession's doorstep.

  Academic text (1993)

• The squirrel cracked the nutshell to reach the tasty walnut inside.

• She collected the empty nutshells after the picnic to clean up the area.

Synonyms

S

shell

vsnutshell

296 1.0

A hard outer covering that protects animals, eggs, or nuts

is specific to the hard case around the kernel of a nut

H

hull

vsnutshell

4 4.2

The outer covering of a seed, nut, or fruit that you remove before eating

is a hard protective case around the kernel rather than an edible covering

Idioms

I

in a nutshell

• Informal

41 3.4

To say something briefly and clearly

How Protective

nutshell

54 1.8

husk

27 3.2

skin

92 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology