A busy doctor wants ms patients to get down to brass tacks.
This means, to get down to brass tacks, that it could hit Alaska.
And this getting down to brass tacks ended a long friendship.
We have talked about replacing this machine for a long time, but we must now get down to brass tacks and decide what type to buy.
"He looks as if he had plenty of determination," he said,"but when you come down to brass tacks he has no backbone."