in a nutshell

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in a nutshell

something that you say when you are describing something using as few words as possible Karen wants them to get married and buy a house and Mike wants them to carry on as they are and that, in a nutshell, is the problem. Well, to put it in a nutshell, we're going to have to start again.

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