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Nuts and bolts   /nəts ənd boʊlts/   Listen
Nuts and bolts

noun
1.
Detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished.






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"Nuts and bolts" Quotes from Famous Books



... junk-yard, this little transmitter is keyed to a receiver in that bomb on your leg. One touch of my thumb, up you go in a cloud of smoke and come down in a shower of nuts and bolts." He signalled to Druce who opened a closet door. "And in case you want to be ...
— The Velvet Glove • Harry Harrison

... worked off the slave-power drive belts. In the tool holder of the lathe was clamped a chip of some hard mineral that did a good enough job of cutting the forged iron and low-carbon steel. Even more cheering was the screw-thread advance on the cutting head that was used to produce the massive nuts and bolts that secured the caroj wheels to their shafts. It could have been worse. Jason sorted out the smallest and handiest tools and put them aside for his own use in the morning. The light was almost gone and there would be no ...
— The Ethical Engineer • Henry Maxwell Dempsey



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