Definitions

make a long story short

ADJECTIVE

compact

Synonyms

STRONG

pointed

WEAK

boiled down compendious concise epigrammatic in a nutshell laconic marrowy meaty pithy short and sweet succinct terse to the point

Antonyms

WEAK

big large lengthy long loose slack unabridged uncondensed

VERB

shorten

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abbreviate compress curtail cut cut back cut down lessen minimize reduce shrink slash trim

STRONG

abridge bob chop clip condense contract dock edit elide excerpt lop retrench snip

WEAK

blue pencil boil down cut to the bone put in a nutshell

Antonyms

STRONGEST

develop enlarge expand extend grow increase lengthen raise strengthen stretch

WEAK

amplify elongate

Example Sentences

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To make a long story short, in this book Lewis doesn’t exercise any.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2023

"To make a long story short, everyone loved the smoked turkey, and I am now responsible for the one-and-only turkey each year," Hill adds.

From Fox News • Nov. 21, 2021

And to make a long story short, we communicated that to the folks at the White House that we can’t sign off on this.

From MSNBC • Jun. 26, 2019

“To make a long story short, I believe that there are some really beautiful new songs of Leonard Cohen that no one’s heard that are at some point going to come out,” he added.

From Washington Times • Sep. 28, 2018

To make a long story short, we won the same rights that the demon citizens had in rebuilding on their old sites.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

make a long story short

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