get down to brass tacks
Example Sentences
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His plays demonstrate a fierce effort to get down to brass tacks.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2025
"It's almost inevitable that the splintering will happen when you get down to brass tacks about what good parenting really looks like."
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2022
But then we get down to brass tacks and the trailer... pretty much tells you the movie’s entire plot, as my colleague Chaim Gartenberg noted in a first look.
From The Verge • Jul. 24, 2021
It’s time for the state to get down to brass tacks, figure out what’s making people move away and fix it.
From Washington Times • May 15, 2019
To get down to brass tacks, three boys, one of them my son, have disappeared under remarkable circumstances from this island, and the indications point directly toward you men as responsible for their disappearance.
From The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands by Duffield, J. W.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
