From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnutshellnut‧shell /ˈnʌt-ʃel/ noun [countable] 1 → in a nutshell2 DFHBPthe hard outer part of a nut
Examples from the Corpus
nutshell• My hon. Friend had it in a nutshell.• That, for me, sums up the movie in a nutshell.• She had summed up his immediate task in a nutshell.• There in a nutshell, as my father put it, was the whole thing.• This, in a nutshell, is how closed organizational systems become self-defeating.• In a nutshell, be sure of your requirements before choosing a printer.• In a nutshell, this is how it appears to me. 