cháng​huà​duǎn​shuō

to make a long story short

长话短说 長話短說 cháng​huà​duǎn​shuō
to make a long story short adverbverb
(idiom) to keep it brief; to summarize a long story by hitting only the main points

Frequency

Movie subtitles
5.10 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
0.192 per million

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