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The dramatic popularization of a phrase like “nitty-gritty” demonstrates that language is always changing across social contexts.

The Manchester-based activist was born in Kinshasa but raised on the “nitty, gritty streets of London town.”

In terms of the nitty-gritty of writing, George brings the skill set of being able to get it out on paper pretty quickly.

It gives a pleasant sense of transgression, of really being in the nitty-gritty.

Obviously, Obama is not going to get into the nitty gritty of implementation.

He has need o' a clean pow that ca's his neighbour nitty now.