Sam nodded. “In a nutshell, yes.”

She watched Jones. “And who will protect the pillars the next time the komatsus invade?”

Jaye Patrick, Huntress, 2007.

nutshell noun
the hard shell around a nut
in a nutshell SPOKEN
used for saying that you are going to express something in a simple direct way:
To put it in a nutshell, we lost the case. [MEDA]

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