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in a nutshell

adv

Etymology

Calque of New Latin in nuce, derived from an anecdote in Pliny the Elder, who ascribes to Cicero the claim that the whole Iliad was once written on parchment and enclosed within a nutshell (Naturalis Historia 7.21.85). Compare typologically Czech stručný, stručně (< struk).

  1. derived from stručný
  2. derived from in nuce

Definitions

  1. In summary

    In summary; briefly or simply.

    • He had a lot to say, but his answer, in a nutshell, was no.
    • The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in a nutshell. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA