ad the source of the allusion.
The ancient Roman scholar Pliny the
Elder relayed an unbelievable story
in which The Iliad (a poem
hundreds of pages long) was written
on parchment paper and inserted
into the shell of a walnut. William
Shakespeare later referenced this
story when his character Hamlet
uses the phrase "in a nutshell" to
describe something that is compact.
What is the meaning of the allusion in the
entence below?
So, in a nutshell, that's the story of my
monthlong trip to Iceland.
in an unusual fashion
in a concise way