make a long story short 的定义
- Get to the point, as in To make a long story short, they got married and moved to Omaha. Although the idea of abbreviating a long-winded account is ancient, this precise phrase dates only from the 1800s. Henry David Thoreau played on it in a letter of 1857: “Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long time to make it short.”
make a long story short 近义词
等同于 compact
make a long story short 的近义词 14 个
- pointed
- boiled down
- compendious
- concise
- epigrammatic
- in a nutshell
- laconic
- marrowy
- meaty
- pithy
- short and sweet
- succinct
- terse
- to the point
make a long story short 的反义词 8 个
等同于 shorten
更多make a long story short例句
- In other words, fluoride is a broad-spectrum, bipartisan, long-lasting magnet for dissent.
- The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.
- But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
- As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
- And they might not have to wait that long to show their political heft.
- And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
- It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
- As long as may be necessary, Sam,” replied Mr. Pickwick, “you have my full permission to remain.
- Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
- I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.