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the main point(s) of a more detailed matteror:
law: the grounds for a legal action
- Just tell me the gist of the matter.
gist = main point(s)
- It's a 300 page report, but the gist of it is that the plan won't work.
- the gist of the prosecutor's argument
- That is the gist of the question.London, Jack -- The Night-Born
- That has been the gist of the parables which I have tried to adapt to the comprehension of my parishioners.de Balzac, Honore -- The Country Doctor
- I have hunted up the guide-books, and the gist of what they say is this: "They are there, but how they got there is a mystery."Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
- 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."Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Of course it was all in Spanish, I had to get it secondhand, but that was the general gist.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees
- We don't have time to go through it all, but I'll tell you the gist of it.James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
- ...she caught the gist of what went on.Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
- They tried to keep the tale of Askew's den from Grandpa, but he got the gist of it.David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness
- But the gist of the story, as they knew it in the end, was as follows.C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
- She didn't say exactly those words, but I got the gist of it.Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember
- The basic gist was this: ...Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You
- Quite suddenly Mary got the gist of what she was saying.James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout
- She did not use exactly these words, but that was the gist of it.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- Here's the gist of it, Bella.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- I knew that she would perhaps be muddled and not take it all in exactly, but I knew, too, that she would grasp the gist of it, very well indeed.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground
- A little grease for the wheel keeps the car running, if you get my gist.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- The gist of his argument is this: that we have been completely disinterested.T.S. Eliot -- Murder in the Cathedral
gist = main point
gist = main point
gist = the main point(s) of a more detailed matter
gist = the main point(s) of a more detailed matter
gist = the main point(s) of a more detailed matter
gist = the main point(s) of a more detailed matter
gist = the main point(s) of a more detailed matter
gist = the main point(s)
gist = the main point(s) of a more detailed matter