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Since the 1500s, nut has enjoyed a figurative meaning for a problem and gave rise to the later metaphor tough/hard nut to crack. By the mid-18th centu...
Since about the 1970s, to nutmeg a goalkeeper in Association Football is to score a goal through the goalkeeper’s legs. There are many theories about...
The basic or essential fundamentals of something; dates from the late 1940s.
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British colloquialism for mad person dates from the late 1950s derives from nuts meaning crazy.