nuts and bolts

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   detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished

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Questions about nuts and bolts

What does nuts and bolts mean?

nuts and bolts means "detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished".

Is nuts and bolts a common word?

nuts and bolts is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.