brass tacks Definition

nitty, platitudes, basics, gist, glitz, nub, speechifying, lowdown, buzzwords, toned, blather, kumbaya, fleshing, bare bones, spiel, shitter, earnest, rhetoric, bafflegab, blue skying, schmoozing, wonky, bluster, grindstone, boiled, guff, smack, wimped, prettied, lauer, posturing, buttoned, bogging, huffy, pontificating, short shrift, businesslike, agreeability, cogitating, gushy, dicker, talking, palaver, gipper, essence, demagoguing, wonk, dumbing, pragmatics, verbiage, knuckled, niceties, strategizing, verklempt, sort, minutia, legwork, preconceived idea, nailed, semantics, posers, watered, primrose path, daschle, specifics, substantive, tangent, crapper, bollixed, bucko, platitudinous, whack, pleasantries, doublespeak, dumbed, particulars, bloviation, cogitation, shift gears, trickles, hammering, hashed, crux, generalities, substantiative, pols, elbow grease, tarnation, knottier, proverbial, yuks, whittles, wishfulness, lays, matter, nuances, touchier, touches, brokaw, carville,