nitty-gritty

短语

n. 事实真相, 本质

发音

UK /ˌnɪtiˈɡɹɪti/
US /ˈnɪtiˈɡɹɪti/
US /-ɾi-/

词形变化

more nitty-gritty 比较级 most nitty-gritty 最高级

别名

knitty-gritty nitty gritty

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The core or essence of something; the gist.

    定语 非正式 不可数

    He gave a short summary without getting into the nitty-gritty of the problem.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Dealing with something in great depth.

    非正式

    1976, United States. National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases, Arthritis - Out of the Maze We deal with them at a very, very nitty gritty level, and we deal with the results of years and years of problems that they've had in the past.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

heart meat center centre core sum substance essence marrow gist

上位词 1

content

下位词 6

stuff quintessence bare bones haecceity hypostasis quiddity

词源

Of uncertain origin; said to have been first used by black jazz musicians from the United States, the word is perhaps a reduplication of gritty (“resembling grit”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *greutą (“grit”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-) with alteration of the first syllable. An urban legend links the origin of the word to the debris remaining in the holds of slave ships after the slaves had been disembarked, but there is no evidence for this. The word is not attested early enough to have been associated with slavery.

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