get down to basics

So let's get down to basics — and make a little magic along the way.

I would just get down to basics about life and love, because there’s no other way to deal with him.

The upheaval also threatened to upend Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plans to get down to basics and prove it can pass all 12 appropriations bills in a topsy-turvy election year.

“Let’s get down to basics, boy. If you don’t ante up, you won’t get any Thanksgiving dinner, and nobody will play Monopoly with you for a full week.”

Cut the fluff and get down to basics.