the nitty-gritty
noun
informal
: the most important and basic facts or details about something
He deals with the nitty-gritty of running the department.
Let's get down to the nitty-gritty and find out what happened.
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The daughter doesn’t need to know the nitty-gritty of your difficult working relationship with her mom, though.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Tools like Hotjar or Crazy Egg track the nitty-gritty details, conversion rates, click-through rates and even heatmaps of user activity.
—Andrew Faridani, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Our beauty test team represents different lip care needs and glam preferences so that you’re equipped with the nitty-gritty details that’ll lead you to your next holy grail lip oil.
—Claire Sullivan, Footwear News, 28 Apr. 2025
The daughter doesn’t need to know the nitty-gritty of your difficult working relationship with her mom, though.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025
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“The nitty-gritty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20nitty-gritty. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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