nuts and bolts
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The basic inner workings of something; the fundamentals; that which makes something operate.
Example Sentences
- "It's really not so hard, once you know the nuts and bolts of the editing process."
- "The Duke intended to make Brora the nerve centre of the railway, and built a large engineering works near the station in which he planned to manufacture everything from nuts and bolts to locomotives."
- "Perhaps those who analyze the prospects for government in an Islamic state based on the works of these theorists forget that, after the revolution, lofty ideals and Utopias are discarded for the nuts and bolts of day-to-day governing."
- "It also involves working with the nuts and bolts of management and leadership."
- "The information presented in the previous chapters gives the nuts and bolts of the most common and basic techniques used to prove the truth of mathematical results."
Inflected Forms
nuts-and-bolts (alternative)
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
brass tacks
nitty-gritty