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Meanings of nitty-gritty in English

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The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.

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      Usage of nitty-gritty in English
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      The nitty-gritty of the American dream doesn't come much grittier than this.
      The Irish Times
      2
      He prefers to traffic in lofty philosophical ideas, not nitty-gritty policy stances.
      The Guardian
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      On the nitty-gritty side, one major concern has to be jobs.
      The Guardian
      4
      It's the nitty-gritty of how this will work in practice that's very important.
      The Guardian
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      So, that just leaves us with the nitty-gritty of working out a price.
      The Reality Dysfunction
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      I'll let Nilay give you all the nitty-gritty details on that.
      The Verge
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      Let's go into the library and get down to the nitty-gritty.
      The hellfire club
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      Leaving aside the nitty-gritty of the debate, idioms are of central importance to language!
      I'm not hanging noodles on your ears and other intriguing idioms...
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      We really want to go into the nitty-gritty on how the figures were made.
      The Guardian
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      If you're not geeky enough to care about the nitty-gritty, skip to question 3.
      The South African
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      Turns out it takes more than 30 minutes to get down to the nitty-gritty.
      Independent.ie
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      Now, at last, we were getting to the real nitty-gritty here, real political horse-trading.
      The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
      13
      The two-day gathering has already seen the party take on the nitty-gritty of policy resolution.
      The South African
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      That should at least subtly tilt the discussion more to financial nitty-gritty from folksy wisdom.
      Reuters
      15
      The nitty-gritty details are available at Mozilla's development center.
      Wired
      16
      In the Journal on Monday, Swift did not get into the nitty-gritty of music economics.
      The Guardian
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