(idea) by ymelup Fri Nov 01 2002 at 4:15:44
An Australian figure of speech, which means to delve into the detail, or to discuss the implementation of something, rather than the high level abstractions. For example:

Businessman: Our Web site should be easy to use and easy to update.

Tech: Let's get down to tin tacks: so you want a web site with a PHP/MySQL backend with some kind of content management system?

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