nuts and bolts
Example Sentences
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“If you don’t know the ins and outs and nuts and bolts inside City Hall, how are you going to be mayor?” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Consider the personal-finance nuts and bolts involved in that kind of situation.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026
After research in the BMW archives to figure out what needed to be done, I replaced all the nuts and bolts with factory-looking originals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
All part of the nuts and bolts at a leading Premier League club in 2025.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025
In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish.
From "1984" by George Orwell
