in a nutshell
Senso (Inglese)
In summary; briefly or simply.
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sinonimi
Traduzioni
Etimologia (Inglese)
Calque of New Latin in nuce, derived from an anecdote in Pliny the Elder, who ascribes to Cicero the claim that the whole Iliad was once written on parchment and enclosed within a nutshell (Naturalis Historia 7.21.85). Compare typologically Czech stručný, stručně (< struk).
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