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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, 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

To make a long story short: The proposal wasn’t aimed at examining every little transaction in your bank account, and would not have accomplished that.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 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, I started going out with her.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.