in a nutshell

Meaning

In summary; briefly or simply.

Translations

in een notendop

kurz zusammen gefasst

in einem Wort

in nuce

en abrégé

en résuméen deux mots

in nuce

in succinto

Etymology

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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