brass-tacks

Example Sentences

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But when it comes down to brass tacks, liverwurst?

From Salon

When it comes down to brass tacks, it's all offal.

From Salon

The other three are fondly impressed with how quickly Factor picked up the brass tacks of acting, this being not just his first professional gig but also the 16-year-old’s first audition.

From Los Angeles Times

This means that for all the misleading dog whistles we heard about critical race theory and the coddling of criminals — but also for all the uplifting rhetoric about historic firsts we heard from Senator Cory Booker and others — this appointment might not matter very much, when we get down to brass tacks.

From New York Times

Over the last 20 years, you and I have seen that there are always lots of technologies and lots of philosophical discussions about what they might do, but when it comes down to brass tacks, what problems are we actually solving?

From The Verge