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BrassTacks is a Pakistani weekly Defense & Strategic political show, hosted by a defense and security analyst Zaid Zaman Hamid telecast by News One. It is aired on Sundays at 8 p.m.
Brass tacks are a type of pin or nail, sometimes called a drawing pin. In colloquial English, the phrase to get down to brass tacks is an idiom that means to focus on essential details, such as measuring out the precise amount of an item for sale.
Brass Tacks is an album by the rock band NRBQ. It was released by Clang! Records on June 17, 2014. It was NRBQ's third album since the band was re-formed by founding member Terry Adams in 2011. Besides Adams on keyboards and vocals, Brass Tacks features Scott Ligon on guitar and vocals, Casey McDonough on bass and vocals, and Conrad Choucroun on drums.
Brass Tacks was an influential BBC TV documentary programme on BBC from 1977–1988. Presenters included Brian Trueman, Eric Robson, David Dimbleby, John Ware and John Harrison.
The first episode, aired on 6 July 1977, featured a debate as to whether or not the Moors murderer Myra Hindley should be considered for parole from the life sentence she had received more than a decade earlier.
Usage examples of "brass tacks".
Actually, if it had come to brass tacks, we should have had no objection either to Niobe and her wrestler's frame.
For he was made of mortal clay and when you got down to brass tacks, what in thunder was a sixteen-year-old kid going to do to them if she figured out what they were doing to each other?
The chairs featured elaborately turned wood, leather upholstery, and brass tacks polished till they gleamed like gold.
They saw the two travelers and scattered brass tacks in front of them to step on.