Examples:

• The nuts and bolts may seem simple, but they add up.
• You can do gears and nuts and bolts—that you can buy at Whole Foods.
• - (HU) Integrated economic and employment guidelines are the nuts and bolts of the EU 2020 strategy.
• The research committee emphasises that the nuts and bolts of these measures is investment in research and technical development.
• Here, you can see my legs: 24 sensors, six microprocessors and muscle-tendon-like actuators. I'm basically a bunch of nuts and bolts from the knee down.
• When it comes to the nuts and bolts of legislation designed to protect workers, however, the Council and the Commission bottle out.
• The monopoly of English is neither good for Europe nor for Great Britain, whose language will become a mere 'nuts and bolts language'
• Mr President, this debate is about the nuts and bolts of Parliament, and it is our duty to ask if the proposals about groups are practical.
• Instead of looking at the billion-dollar projects and silver-bullet solutions, we need to get back to the nuts and bolts of what makes a successful economy.
• It would be premature at this stage to concern ourselves with the nuts and bolts of the rules which are to govern the structural funds into the next millennium.