Nutshell

['nʌtʃel] or ['nʌtʃɛl]

(noun.) the shell around the kernel of a nut.

Editor: Verna--From WordNet

(n.) The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.

(n.) Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.

(n.) A shell of the genus Nucula.

Checker: Trent

There is the whole case in a nutshell. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
There you have it all in a nutshell, Watson, and if you can give me any light I shall be infinitely obliged to you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
It lies in a nutshell, notwithstanding. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
There it is in a nutshell. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
We will first peep into one or two other nooks of this nutshell, he replied. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
It all lies in a nutshell my dear; in a nutshell, take the Dodger's word for it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
It lay in a nutshell. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Checker: Rita