nut out

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To find a solution (for something), especially in a group discussion

   To find a solution (for something), especially in a group discussion; also, to work out the finer details (of something).

   • On the Monday afternoon, at about four o'clock, Mervyn said, “Well, we’re doing a lot of sitting around gas, gas, gas, but it seems to me we’ve got everything there is to nut out, nutted out.[…]”
   • In ’86 Frank helped Ian [Roberts] nut out his first contract—$26,000 a year—[…]
2. 2

   To become crazy, especially with rage.

   • The day we found out George Jackson was murdered he nutted out. I was there, at Shirley Sutherland′s house in Beverly Hills, the afternoon we heard George Jackson was murdered, and he nutted out at this meeting, right there.
   • I tried not to think about clients who were in prison without appellate hopes or anything else left but years of time in front of them to nut out. I do what I can with each case but sometimes there is nothing that can be done.

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