as in ropes
the specific practical details of something
the nuts and bolts of the merger of the two companies have yet to be worked out
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brass tacks
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The trade that brought Butler to San Francisco also forced Kerr, his staff, and the Warriors roster to get down to brass tacks.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2025 -
All this gets caught up in relatively broad and esoteric debates about immigration as a virtue and levels of enforcement, but at brass tacks, this is a practical issue.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Nuts and bolts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuts%20and%20bolts. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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