{"id":287,"date":"2014-05-22T11:25:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T09:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2014-05-22T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T09:25:58","slug":"idiom-55-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-55-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 55 &#8211; In a nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/various-1766_640.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/various-1766_640-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"various-1766_640\" width=\"187\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/various-1766_640-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/various-1766_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>Our company has been losing money for the last two years. We had consultants visiting us to analyse the problems that our company has been having. They found a lot of points where we need to improve, but <em>in a nutshell (kurz zusammengefasst)<\/em>, we are spending way too much money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meanings-body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The the concept of something being small enough to fit in a nutshell goes back to Pliny the Elder, who in AD 77 described a copy of Homer&#8217;s Iliad written small enough to fit in a nutshell. In Hamlet, Shakespeare has his protagonist say &#8222;I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"meanings-body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the idiomatic meaning of &#8222;in a nutshell&#8220; as &#8222;saying something in few words&#8220; didn&#8217;t emerge until the 19th century. Thackeray used it in <em>The Second Funeral of Napoleon<\/em>, 1841 &#8222;Here, then, in a nutshell, you have the whole matter.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our company has been losing money for the last two years. We had consultants visiting us to analyse the problems that our company has been having. They found a lot of points where we need to improve, but in a nutshell (kurz zusammengefasst), we are spending way too much money. The the concept of something [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}