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/nˈətʃˌɛl/ Listen

noun

Nutshell n.

The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.

Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.

(Zool.) A shell of the genus Nucula.

in a nutshell in a summarized and very abbreviated form; of statments, descriptions, reports, and other communications; as, to describe the convention in a nutshell.

To be in a nutshell or To lie in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell."

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Etymology of 'Nutshell'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nutshell" Quotes from Famous Books

... there," answered the little old woman, pointing to a tiny shadow, no bigger than a nutshell, ...

— The Adventures of Pinocchio • C. Collodi--Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini

... obviously had red hair, who appeared to wear the insignia of the married state, and who—again according to the law of averages—had at least one child. I naturally slumped the schoolmaster idea in with it, and there you have the whole thing in a nutshell. But it was Garnesk who set me looking for left-handed clues, and if I hadn't been looking for it, it would never have ...

— The Mystery of the Green Ray • William Le Queux

... thing lies in a nutshell. A certain gentleman was found, one morning, in an obscure street, lying in an angle of a doorway—I should rather say, leaning, in an upright position, in the angle of a doorway, and supported consequently by the doorway. Upon his waistcoat there was one solitary drop of blood. He was dead and ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... things are possible to us, even to the conquest of the world! Now, a lad of your intelligence ought to be able to see, without much persuasion, how tremendous an advantage it will be to belong to such a formidable band as we shall soon become, therefore I put it to you in a nutshell—Will ...

— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood

... draw out the soul; we feel that we have wider thoughts than we knew; the soul has been living, as it were, in a nutshell, all unaware of its own power, and now suddenly finds freedom in the sun and the sky. Straight, as if sawn down from turf to beach, the cliff shuts off the human world, for the sea knows no time and no era; you cannot tell what century it is from the face ...

— Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies

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