Nuts-and-bolts
noun
1.
the essential or basic aspects:
to learn the nuts and bolts of a new job.
plural noun
1.
(informal) the essential or practical details
modifier
: Berger’s nuts-and-bolts discussion of film-TV music
noun phrase
The fundamentals; the practical basics: the nuts and bolts of wildland preservation/ men who are dealing with the nuts and bolts of negotiations (1960+)
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