Usually means: Returning to fundamental principles, simplicity.
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  1. back to basics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  2. back-to-basics, back to basics: Wiktionary
  3. back-to-basics: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. back-to-basics, back to basics: Dictionary.com
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  6. Back to basics: Phrase Finder
  7. back to basics: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. back to basics: Idioms

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  1. Back to Basics: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (back to basics)

adverb:  back to fundamental principles
noun:  (politics, chiefly British) A conscious return to principles such as self-respect, decency and honesty; especially the discredited policy of the Conservative government in the 1990s.

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