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brass-tacks

adjective

Informal. Precisely meaningful and tersely cogent:

aphoristic, compact, epigrammatic, epigrammatical, marrowy, pithy.

Idioms: down to brass tacks, to the point.

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It may be advisable to put an end to the inane charade of mere hankering after peace and to get down to brass-tacks.

Modi is back - for better or for worse!

It would be advisable to put an end to the inane charade of mere hankering after peace and to get down to brass-tacks. Or is one talking out of turn?

If Modi gets re-elected!

The convincing part did not appear difficult but all five could not be persuaded to actually unsheath their pens and gent down to the brass-tacks of writing such a book.

For Gender Activists' Attention

His girlfriend (Jennifer Garner), who also happens to be the team's salary-cap manager, has just announced she's pregnant; his high-strung mother (Ellen Burstyn) can't help making him feel inferior to his late father, a legendary Browns head coach; and, after a 6-10 season, the team's brass-tacks owner (a deliciously oily Frank Langella) seems eager for any reason to lire him.

Costner scores in 'Draft Day'

A song such as "Silver" bounces maniacally, a little sugar-high manic, but buoyed by a brass-tacks rock sensibility.

Power pop; Clubs

The idea is to get right down to the brass-tacks, without wasting the visitor's time.

iPhone.PLAVEB Launches Its All New Service-Focused, Redesigned Website

But there are some much more brass-tacks security products on the Macworld Expo show-floor that have nothing to do with hackers or malware.

Securing Mac

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