get down to bedrock

get down to bedrock

To focus on the most important aspects of a particular situation. Let's get down to bedrock so that everyone has a good grasp on the project overall before we split up to do our separate parts. Don't get overwhelmed with this case, just get down to bedrock. Please get down to bedrock, OK? We don't need all the extraneous details you included with last month's report.

See also: bedrock, down, get, to

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