boil down

Meaning

Verb

• To reduce in volume by boiling.
• To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core or implication for action).
• To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core or implication for action).

Related

Similar words

• come down to

Origin

• As an allusion to the technique of reduction or decreasing liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.