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The meaning of a long story short

Omit lengthy conversations and focus on the key points.

To make a long story short, this is a Chinese idiom whose pinyin is cháng huà duǎn shuō. It means that you have a lot to say and cannot explain it clearly at the moment, so you can only use a few concise sentences to express the main meaning. From "The Lamp on the Crossroads".

Word source:

Chapter 36 of "Qilu Deng" by Li Luyuan of the Qing Dynasty: "To make a long story short, you and Mr. Tan are brothers, and he won me more than a hundred silver. ”

Idiom usage:

As a predicate or clause; it means simply speaking.

The middle volume of Gao Yang's "The Complete Biography of Hu Xueyan·Stepping into Success": "Let's make a long story short, how are you doing with Boss Hu?"

Sentences:

1. Long story short, I made him pay for it.

2. Long story short, we entered into a legal contract.

3. Long story short, Harry did not become a transvestite The wizard is here, please rest assured.

4. To make a long story short, we reached a legal contract.

5. I turned left at a traffic light, but I didn’t have the right of way. To make a long story short,... I was ruined Another car fell off.

6. When our grandparents grew up, long-distance phone calls were an expensive luxury. You had to make time to speak as long as possible.

7. Paul, let’s make a long story short, I don’t love you anymore.

8. Tang An’s face remained motionless, he accepted the instructions and said slowly: “My child, I Time is running out, so let’s keep the story short.