nutshell : Idioms & Phrases


in a nutshell

  • adverb summed up briefly
    • gave the facts in a nutshell
    • just tell me the story in a nutshell
    • explained the situation in a nutshell
WordNet

To be, ∨ lie, in a nutshell

  • to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell."
Webster 1913