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GET DOWN TO THE NITTY-GRITTY

most important aspects or practical details of a subject or situation
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1. Your ideas in this report are hard to understand. Why not take out all the useless information and get down to the nitty gritty?
2. Getting down to the nitty-gritty, we discussed the budget cuts in detail.


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