nuts and bolts

Definitions

1. 1

   The basic inner workings of something

   The basic inner workings of something; the fundamentals; that which makes something operate.

   • 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.

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