brass tack

collocation in English

meaningsofbrassandtack

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brass
adjective[before noun]
uk
/brɑːs/us
/bræs/
(of a musical instrument) made of metal and played ...
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tack
noun
uk
/tæk/us
/tæk/
a small, sharp nail with a ...
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(Definition ofbrassandtackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Accordingly, price and the realisation of price is the secondbrasstack.
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What is the firstbrasstack?
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I wanted to bring the matter to actualities and down to brass tacks.
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He has to clear the decks and throw overboard all the passengers and get down to brass tacks.
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This is the language of getting down to brass tacks and no argument.
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Now we are getting down to brass tacks.
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That was deliberate and on purpose, because my belief is that at this present moment what most needs looking after is just the brass tacks.
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Now, as a matter of "brass tacks", what is the present position?
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We never got down to brass tacks about the instructions which had been sent to that corporation.
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But we shall solve this problem only if we get down to the brass tacks of it.
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I want to get down to brass tacks.
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I am trying to show that we are getting down, not to brass tacks but to some fairly rough-grained wood.
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Let us come down to brass tacks about this matter.
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We have to get down to brass tacks.
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I shall give one example of the difficulty—to bring it down to brass tacks—which one has in helping with capital development some of these areas.
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Brass tacks, in my view, in this case were meat.
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I want to bring him to brass tacks over the latter statement.
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The argument will obviously continue when we come down to brass tacks in the next few years.
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However, we must come down from first principles to brass tacks.
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If one comes down to brass tacks, he must realise that the wages of the workers are dependent upon the price of food.
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