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Old 07-06-2018, 08:17 AM   #166
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‘In a nutshell’....

In a few words; concisely. Summed up briefly.


Origin: The phrase originates in an ancient story, described by the Roman scholar Pliny in AD 77, that the great philosopher Cicero witnessed a copy of Homer’s epic poem the Iliad written on a piece of parchment that was quite small enough to fit into the shell of a walnut.
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