Synonyms for nuts and bolts
nuts and bolts

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1. nuts and boltsnoun

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, low-level, brass tacks

2. nuts and boltsnoun

   The basic, inner workings of something; the fundamentals or basics; that which makes something operate, on a basic level.

   It's really not so hard, once you know the nuts and bolts of the editing process.

   Synonyms:
   brass tacks, low-level, nitty-gritty

Princeton's WordNet

1. nuts and boltsnoun

   detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished

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1. Henry Bromel:

   They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

2. Jim Kotch:

   When I started Sam Adams [in 1984], everyone thought it was a crazy idea. There were no craft breweries around, no one would lend me money, and I needed just basic nuts-and-bolts business advice.

3. George Bonanno:

   There is a way of thinking which I call the flexibility mindset, which leads to the flexibility sequence. It's like the nuts and bolts.

4. Sarah Ransome:

   She was like the madam, she was like the nuts and bolts of the sex trafficking operation.

5. D. L. Moody:

   If a man is stealing nuts and bolts from a railway track, and, in order to change him, you send him to college, at the end of his education, he will steal the whole railway track.