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Complete Definition of "boil down"

English

Verb
boil down or boil down to or boils down to

  1. idiom As an allusion to the cooking technique of reducing liquids by heat, one boils down a problem, argument, etc. to its most central elements.

#:So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks.

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