brass tacks
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After warm handshakes and a warning about Taiwan from Xi Jinping on Thursday, the Chinese president and Trump were due to get down to brass tacks on Friday with discussions on trade, geopolitics and AI.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
“Investors are getting down to brass tacks and saying, ‘What do we want to own over the next few months?’”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026
His plays demonstrate a fierce effort to get down to brass tacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2025
But when it came to brass tacks, to financial compensation, they were not.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
“When it comes down to brass tacks, you don’t give a damn about them. Or _ _ r> me. “
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
C. approaches her life with a brass-tacks practicality.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
What are the brass-tacks strategies to be successful on Patreon?
From The Verge ● Jun. 22, 2021
“We are living in a brass-tacks time where we’ve spent months stripping down and getting rid of what we don’t need.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2020
An industry known for outlandishness will be driven toward brass-tacks problems.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 13, 2018
This one goes beyond judicial ideology, or even brass-tacks party politics, and hits at the very core of each justice’s ego.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2015
