Brass tacks Idiom, Proverb
down to brass tacks
(See get down to brass tacks)
get down to brass tacks
begin the most important work or business Let's get down to brass tacks and begin talking about the new contract.
get down to brass tacks down to cases
begin the most important work or business；get started on the most important thing to talk about or know 讨论实质问题；谈论正经事
The men talked about little things and then got down to brass tacks．这些人先谈了一些鸡毛蒜皮的小事，然后就言归正传了。
You have talked about everything under the sun；now you'd better get down to brass tacks．你们已经天南海北乱扯了许多，现在最好要谈正经的了。
get down to brass tacks/get down to cases
begin the most important work or business；get started on the most important thing to talk about or know 讨论实质问题；谈论正经事
The men talked about little things and then got down to brass tacks．这些人先谈了一些鸡毛蒜皮的小事，然后就言归正传了。
You have talked about everything under the sun；now you'd better get down to brass tacks．你们已经天南海北乱扯了许多，现在最好要谈正经的了。
Brass tacks
If you get down to brass tacks, you get down to the real business.
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v. phr. To start being serious; begin to face a problem to be solved, or a task to be accomplished.
Gentlemen, I'm afraid the party is over and we must get down to business.brass tacks
The best important, fundamental, basic, or actual facts, priorities, or realities of a situation. Acclimated primarily in the phrase, "come/get down to assumption tacks." We eventually got down to assumption tacks and came up with a solution. Look, let's appear down to assumption tacks and adjudge how to handle the situation. The assumption tacks are these: if you don't win this district, you won't win the election.Learn more: brass, tackbrass tacks
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To access at the affection of the matter. Some anticipate this backward nineteenth-century appellation comes from Cockney balladry argot for hard facts. Another accessible and conceivably added acceptable antecedent is the American accepted store, area a countertop was apparent with assumption tacks at one-yard intervals for barometer cloth, and “getting to assumption tacks” meant barometer precisely. Still addition approach is that in adipose furniture, assumption tacks were acclimated to defended the basal cloth, and to reupholster appropriately one had to band the appliance to that layer. A mid-twentieth-century American analogue is to get down to the nitty-gritty, alluding to the abundant (nitty) and conceivably abhorrent (gritty) facts of the case. It was adopted from atramentous English, area it adumbrated the anus and alluded to acrimonious anatomy lice (nits) from that anatomy part. This affiliation had been abundantly abandoned by the time the appellation was affected by the 1964 hit song “The Nitty Gritty” by Shirley Ellis.Learn more: brass, down, get