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, I almost lost my wife, my ‘67 Corvette, and my cat,” he continued.

From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 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

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

Father suddenly remembered he needed to stomp off and do some very important thing or another, and to make a long story short, they didn’t stay for dinner.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

make a long story short

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