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  • Connor might not know all the particulars, but he knows the gist.  (source)
    gist = main points
  • Within a day, the gist of Mishka's comments were shared with the authorities; within a week, they were set down word for word.  (source)
    gist = main point(s)
  • We don't have time to go through it all, but I'll tell you the gist of it.  (source)
    gist = the main point(s) of a more detailed matter
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  • Like all the lessons at the Institute, this one was a barrage of details — pages and pages worth — but the gist was that sickness, like a hungry predator, lurked in every nook and cranny.  (source)
    gist = main point
  • I used the time in between to read about mushrooms and talk to mycolo gists.†  (source)
  • He got the gist, however.  (source)
    gist = main point(s)
  • But any schoolboy who gists a D had better learn.†  (source)
  • She didn't say exactly those words, but I got the gist of it.  (source)
    gist = the main point(s)
  • Sadly, the filmmakers had gotten most of the specifics wrong, but the basic gist was there—a secret society communing to celebrate the magic of sexual union.  (source)
    gist = main point
  • The gist of his reply was: "I have to study too, you know, and if I can't do that in the afternoons, I won't be able to fit it in at all."  (source)
  • They tried to keep the tale of Askew's den from Grandpa, but he got the gist of it.  (source)
    gist = the main point(s) of a more detailed matter
  • The basic gist was this: ...  (source)
  • But the gist of the story, as they knew it in the end, was as follows.  (source)
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