GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

From Sampath’s Desk:

GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

 

GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS:

 

Meaning:

 

To go straight to the basic facts and realities of a matter – to begin the most important work or business – talk about the important things - to get started with the essentials – get serious about something – talk about the crux of the matter or the real issue or problem – to focus on the most important aspects of a particular situation

 

 

Example sentences:

 

We have been chatting around for quite some time. Let us GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS and discuss what we are really here for.

 

They finally GOT DOWN TO BRASS TACKS and discussed the issue threadbare that was really bothering them.

 

After exchanging pleasantries with each other, the heads of the two companies GOT DOWN TO BRASS TACKS and finalized the terms for the proposed merger.

 

Enough is enough. We have unnecessarily wasted a lot of time. Let us right now GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS regarding our important infrastructure projects.

 

Let us GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS so that everyone has a good grasp on the project overall before we split up to do our separate parts.

 

Don’t get overwhelmed with this case, just GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS.

 

That’s all the facts when you COME (GET DOWN) TO BRASS TACKS – regarding details of birth and death of humans.

 

The U.S. Congress, after mulling over the options for months, finally GOT DOWN TO BRASS TACKS last week and drafted a preliminary proposal on the issue.

 

 

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING:

 

Ado – adoo - அடூ

 

The usage of this idiom is more common in the journalistic world.

 

Meaning:

 

If you say ‘much ado about nothing’, you mean that they are making a lot of noise and fuss about something which is not as important or significant as they think it is – causing a lot of commotion, excitement, and/or uproar over something insignificant  

 

Example sentences:

 

While the government underplayed that issue, the media is making MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

 

The overriding impression and implications sought to be made out by some about India’s latest farm bills are nothing but making MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

 

Politicians, in general, have the tendency to blow up even small and trivial issues out of proportion and make MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

 

All these arguments are nothing but making MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

 

After one year, I dropped out of the 4-year course because I genuinely believed that it was MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING really, not worth pursuing considering the long course time and it was all about style, not about the core content.

 

I strongly believe that making a lot of noise questioning and quarreling over the TV channel to be seen at homes is doing MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

 

 

Proverb:

 

நாய்க்கு வேலையும் இல்லை, இருக்க நேரமும் இல்லை.

A dog has nothing to do, and no time to rest.

 

செலவு இல்லாத சிங்காரம் போல.

Like ornamentation that costs nothing.

 

  

(R.SAMPATH)

27/10/2021

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