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nuts and bolts

–noun
the essential or basic aspects: to learn the nuts and bolts of a new job.

Origin:
1955–60


nuts-and-bolts, adjective
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nuts and bolts  
pl.n.   Slang
The basic working components or practical aspects: "[proposing] lofty goals without specifying the nuts and bolts of how they are to be achieved" (Village Voice).
nuts'-and-bolts' (nŭts'ən-bōlts') adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
nuts and bolts

  1. n.
    the mundane workings of something; the basics of something. : She's got a lot of good, general ideas, but when it comes to the nuts and bolts of getting something done, she's no good.
  2. n.
    the subject of psychology in college. : Tom is flunking nuts and bolts because he won't participate in the required “experiments.”
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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