BOIL DOWN TO


Meaning of BOIL DOWN TO in English

If you say that a situation or problem boils down to a particular thing or can be boiled down to a particular thing, you mean that this is the most important or the most basic aspect of it.

What they want boils down to just one thing. It is land...

= amount to

PHRASAL VERB : V P P n

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