Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
NUTSHELL
nutshell
(noun) the shell around the kernel of a nut
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
nutshell (plural nutshells)
The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.
A short book summarizing an area of law.
Verb
nutshell (third-person singular simple present nutshells, present participle nutshelling, simple past and past participle nutshelled)
(transitive) To summarize (from the term in a nutshell).
Source: Wiktionary
Nut"shell`, n.
1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.
2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A shell of the genus Nucula. To be, or lie, in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell." Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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