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get down to the nitty-gritty
to get down to the basic facts. Stop messing around and get down to the nitty-gritty. If we could only get down to the nitty-gritty and stop wasting time.
See also: get

the nitty-gritty
the most basic and important facts of something We didn't actually get down to the nitty-gritty (= start to talk about the most important facts) until half way through the meeting.


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The process requires parents to spend endless hours of nit picking and pay for unforeseen expenses.
1,444 million in the same quarter of last year, this was stated by Chairman & MD - NIT Tariq Iqbal Khan in a press release issued here on Tuesday after the Board of Directors of National Investment Trust Ltd approved the accounts of four Funds under its management.
Each of the NIT under scheme A will be established at a cost of Rs.
 
 
 
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