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nut⋅shell
[nuht-shel] 
–noun
—Idiom| 1. | the shell of a nut. |
| 2. | in a nutshell, in very brief form; in a few words: Just tell me the story in a nutshell. |
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| nut·shell (nŭt'shěl') n. The shell enclosing the meat of a nut. |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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in a nutshell
Concisely, in a few words, as in Here's our proposal
in a nutshell, we want to sell the business to you. This hyperbolic expression alludes to the Roman writer Pliny's description of Homer's Iliad being copied in so tiny a hand that it could fit in a nutshell. For a time it referred to anything compressed, but from the 1500s on it referred mainly to written or spoken words.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Language Translation for : in a nutshell
Spanish:
en pocas palabras,
German:
in aller Kürze,
Japanese:
簡単に
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