수업준비 하다가, 흔히 쓰는 'in a nutshell'(아주 분명히, 간단명료하게)이란 표현의 기원이 궁금하더군요. 두가지를 찾았는 데, : IN A NUTSHELL - From the archives: Entry for "Nutshell", _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, E. Cobham Brewer, 1898: "The Iliad in a nutshell. Pliny tells us that Cicero asserts that the whole Iliad was written on a piece of parchment which might be put into a nutshell. Lalanne describes, in his Curiosités Bibliographi..