brass tacks
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After warm handshakes and a warning about Taiwan from Xi Jinping on Thursday, the Chinese president and Trump were due to get down to brass tacks on Friday with discussions on trade, geopolitics and AI.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
“Investors are getting down to brass tacks and saying, ‘What do we want to own over the next few months?’”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026
His plays demonstrate a fierce effort to get down to brass tacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2025
But when it came to brass tacks, to financial compensation, they were not.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
“When it comes down to brass tacks, you don’t give a damn about them. Or _ _ r> me. “
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
What are the brass-tacks strategies to be successful on Patreon?
From The Verge ● Jun. 22, 2021
Changing all this, she argues, will mean teaching boys, from the earliest possible age, the brass-tacks basics of respect, dignity and self-determination.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2021
Apted’s brass-tacks candor is mostly useful in “63 Up”—but in one instance it’s shocking.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 27, 2019
This one goes beyond judicial ideology, or even brass-tacks party politics, and hits at the very core of each justice’s ego.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2015
Criss Cross albums mostly represent New York’s brass-tacks mainstream, particularly up-and-coming players.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2015
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