ever give someone something that fit "in a nutshell?"

‘I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams’.

Hamlet ~ Shakespeare

the expression dates back to ancient times ~

The phrase originates in an ancient story, described by the Roman scholar Pliny in AD 77, that the great philosopher Cicero witnessed a copy of Homer’s epic poem the Iliadwritten on a piece of parchment that was quite small enough to fit into the shell of a walnut.

~OxfordBlog

from the estate collection ...

1904 St. Louis World's Fair collectible

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