boiling down
Distilling the core
Boiling down is reducing something to its essentials by removing what's unnecessary—like liquid evaporating from a pot until only the concentrated substance remains.
Let me boil it down for you: we can't afford it.
When something boils down to a single factor, that's what it fundamentally amounts to: It all boils down to money.
- cruxMost important point
- evaporationLiquid turning to gas
- melting awayGradually ceasing to exist
- condensingReducing in volume
- bottom lineEssential point or conclusion
brass tacks · in a nutshell · nutshell · long story short · cutting to the chase · getting to · essence · summarization · gist · kernel · core · abstraction · synthesis · streamlining · pruning · refining · reduction · encapsulation
- simplificationsimplification, simplifying, simplify, condensing, simplified
- boilingsimmer, bubbles, steam, water vapor, evaporation
- making smallershrinking, compressing, reducing, squeezing, compacting
boiling downexpanding
Growing in scope
elaborating · fleshing out · padding out · amplifying · extending
boiling downunpacking
Removing items from containers
breaking down · dissecting · analyzing · exploring · complicating
boiling downexpounding
Explaining at length
unpacking · spelling out · developing · detailing · explicating
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