- 1真正要緊的細節；核心（口語：來談重點／實際面）
The nitty-gritty is the real, practical heart of a job or a problem — the facts you have to deal with, not the nice talk around them. We often say get down to the nitty-gritty, meaning stop going round the subject and talk about what we actually have to do, what it will cost, or how it will work. It is informal and a little rough in a friendly way. You can also use it like an adjective: the nitty-gritty details. Nobody is completely sure where it came from. People say Black jazz musicians in the United States used it first. It may be a playful twist on gritty, as in rough like grit, with the first half changed so the two halves sound alike. Though actually, there is a grim story some people repeat: that it named the dirt left in slave ships. There is no evidence for that, and the word does not show up early enough in writing to belong to that time. A tidy answer would hide the story; I would rather say it is a story, and a false one.
組成Origin uncertain. Said to have been first used by Black jazz musicians in the United States; perhaps a playful repeat of gritty (“like grit”), with the first half changed. A story tying it to slave ships has no evidence, and the word is not recorded early enough for that.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
nitty-grittynoun/ˌnɪtiˈɡɹɪti/
- 1
The core or essence of something; the gist.
- He gave a short summary without getting into the nitty-gritty of the problem.
nitty-grittyadj/ˌnɪtiˈɡɹɪti/
- 1
Dealing with something in great depth.
- 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.
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