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English
The expression refers to the tidy, compact package.
Etymology
Calque of Latin in nuce .
Pronunciation
Adverb
in a nutshell
( idiomatic ) In summary; briefly or simply .
He had a lot to say, but his answer, in a nutshell , was no.
2019 , Daniel Taylor, Lionel Messi magic puts Barcelona in command of semi-final with Liverpool (in The Guardian , 1 May 2019)[1]
Sadio Mané wasted a glorious chance in the first half and, late on, Mohamed Salah turned his shot against a post after a goal-line clearance had spun his way. That, in a nutshell , perhaps sums up the difference between Messi and the players on the next rung below – the ones who can be described as great footballers without necessarily being football greats.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad , “The Heart of Darkness ”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, [ … ] , →OCLC , part I:The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut .
Synonyms
Translations
in summary
Catalan: en resum (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 總而言之 / 总而言之 (zh) ( zǒng'éryánzhī ) , 总而言之 (zh) ( zǒng'éryánzhī ) , 概括地說 / 概括地说 , 概括地说 ( gàikuò de shuō )
Czech: v kostce , stručně (cs)
Danish: i en nøddeskal
Dutch: in een notendop
Esperanto: unuvorte
Finnish: pähkinänkuoressa (fi) , sanalla sanottuna , lyhyesti sanottuna
French: en un mot (fr) , en résumé (fr) , en bref (fr)
Georgian: მოკლედ ( moḳled )
German: kurzgesagt (de) , mit einem Worte
Greek: εν συντομία (el) ( en syntomía ) , περιληπτικά (el) ( periliptiká ) , λακωνικά (el) ( lakoniká ) , με λίγα λόγια (el) ( me líga lógia )
Hungarian: dióhéjban
Icelandic: í hnotskurn
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Indonesian: ringkasnya , singkatnya , singkat kata (id)
Italian: in breve , in sostanza , in poche parole
Japanese: 要するに ( ようするに, yō suru ni ) , つまりは ( tsumariwa )
Latin: in nuce
Norwegian:
Bokmål: i et nøtteskall
Nynorsk: i eit nøtteskal
Polish: w pigułce
Portuguese: em poucas palavras
Russian: кра́тко (ru) ( krátko ) , вкра́тце (ru) ( vkrátce ) , в двух слова́х (ru) ( v dvux slováx ) , одни́м сло́вом ( odním slóvom ) , коро́че говоря́ ( koróče govorjá )
Spanish: en resumen , en pocas palabras
Swedish: i ett nötskal , kort sagt (sv)
Thai: โดยย่อ
Vietnamese: tóm lại (vi)