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Today, I'm going to talk about the idiom "in a nutshell". Are you familiar with the phrase?

When you say "in a nutshell", it means that you want to describe something or tell a story in brief. Instead of using a lot of words, you want to use a few words to describe it.

In other words, you don't want to tell the whole story. Instead, you want to make a long story short. Then you can use this phrase "in a nutshell".

Vocabulary.com gives us an interesting example: it goes….

If you don't want to tell your friend the whole long story about how your hair came to be dyed purple instead of blonde, you can sum it up by saying, "In a nutshell, I bought the wrong hair dye."

Now, would you like to try a quiz? I'll give you three options, please listen carefully and choose the one that is CORRECT. Ready?

"in a nutshell" means:

1. boldly

2. differently

3. briefly