long story short
Cutting to chase
Long story short is a phrase used to skip over details and get to the main point or outcome: Long story short, we missed the flight.
It signals that the speaker is condensing a complicated narrative.
Sometimes rendered as to make a long story short.
- in a nutshellIn condensed form
- sum upState concisely
- wrap it upEnd or complete something
- bottom lineEssential point or conclusion
- summaryCondensed account of essentials
abbreviation · ellipsis · abridged · condensed · eventually · get to the point · concise · lastly · synopsis · distillation · paraphrase · précis · briefly · synthesis · generalization · all in all · narration · gist
- filler phrasesum, uh, like, you know, I mean
- Get to the Pointcut to the chase, bottom line, in a nutshell, spit it out, straight talk
- phrasesnoun phrases, noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, prepositional phrases
- stock phrasesstock phrase, set phrase, cliche, catchphrase, filler phrase
- summariessummary, synopsis, summaries, abstract, abstracts
- in summaryin brief, in sum, briefly, succinctly, to sum up
long story shortblow by blow
Exhaustively detailed account
the whole story · chapter and verse · play by play · from start to finish · in great detail
long story shortbeating around the bush
Avoiding direct communication
rambling · digressing · meandering · waxing poetic · getting sidetracked
long, longer, longest, longish, lengthy, length, lengthen, lengthening, lengthwise