get down to brass tacks

idiom

informal

: to start to discuss or consider the most important details or facts about something

We finally got down to brass tacks and decided to work out a schedule for the project.

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Recent Examples on the Web But the point of this article is to get down to brass tacks and simply show the relationship between housing costs and worker shortages. —

Atticus Leblanc, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022

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