📚IDIOM: kill two birds with one stone

✍🏾Meaning:

If you kill two birds with one stone, you achieve two things with the one action.

❕For example:

🔺I need to go to the bank, and if I drop the books off at the library on the way I’ll be killing two birds with one stone.

🔺Jenny says that she kills two birds with one stone if she does her own housework because she gets the house clean and she gets some exercise at the same time.

IDIOMS: IN A NUTSHELL

Meaning: You can say “in a nutshell” if you’re about to describe something as briefly as possible, or you’re going to sum something up.

For example:

• It’s a very complex situation, but the problem is, in a nutshell, a lack of sales.
• The president’s in trouble and the reason, in a nutshell, is that people no longer trust him.
• To put it in a nutshell, we lost the case.

Similar: in short,  briefly, in brief, to put it briefly, to cut a long story short, in a word, to sum up, in sum, to come to the point, in essence, in outline