adj. Informal
Concerned with essential matters; practical: a brass-tacks leader.
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- Precisely meaningful and tersely cogent: aphoristic, compact, epigrammatic, epigrammatical, marrowy, pithy. Idioms: down to brass tacks, to the point. See meaning, style/good style/bad style.
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