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[ nuht-shel ] / ˈnʌtˌʃɛl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR nutshell ON THESAURUS.COM
Idioms for nutshellin a nutshell, in very brief form; in a few words: Just tell me the story in a nutshell.
Origin of nutshell1175–1225; Middle English nutescell;see nut, shell Words nearby nutshellnutritive equilibrium, nutriture, nuts, nuts and bolts, nut sedge, nutshell, nutso, nutsy, nutter, nutting, nutty Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for nutshellIn a nutshell, baijiu is to China what apple pie is to America, if not even more so. The Most Powerful Liquor in the World|Kayleigh Kulp|August 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST In a nutshell, producers are the ones who oversee a movie from beginning to end. Interactive: Hollywood’s 50 Greatest Producers of All Time|Brandy Zadrozny, Rachel Bronstein|March 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST In a nutshell: She screwed struggling North Carolinians by backing sequestration and the shutdown. Can B-List Hollywood Stars Shine in Washington?|Michelle Cottle|February 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST That, in a nutshell, is the response of three right-wing media outlets to the new comedy documentary The Muslims Are Coming! Why the Right Is Bashing My Muslim Comedy Movie|Dean Obeidallah|September 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In a nutshell, you can get rich and famous by being outrageous. Weiner &c.|Michael Tomasky|July 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST It was part of a nutshell as big as a man's head and as hard as wood. Days of the Discoverers|L. Lamprey The whole wide heaven was not too wide for you then; but now you can be jolly in your "nutshell." The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863|Various Socrates, as reported by Xenophon, put my case in a nutshell. God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford Such rooms are warm and cold climates brought together in a nutshell. The Chautauquan, Vol. III, March 1883|The Chautauquan Literary and Scientific Circle Veikko handed his father a nutshell at sight of which his brothers burst out laughing. Mighty Mikko|Parker Fillmore
British Dictionary definitions for nutshell
nounthe shell around the kernel of a nut in a nutshell in essence; briefly Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with nutshellThe American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to nutshellrundown, rehash, sketch, outline, essence, review, analysis, synopsis, version, survey, recap, prospectus, summation, trim, lower, cut, dwindle, shorten, lessen, pare |