长话短说
cháng​huà​duǎn​shuō

to make a long story short

  • created sense approved 长话短说/長話短說 · cháng​huà​duǎn​shuō · to make a long story short — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    长话短说 / 長話短說

    cháng​huà​duǎn​shuō

    to make a long story short

    (idiom) to keep it brief; to summarize a long story by hitting only the main points

    长 (literal) → 长/長 · cháng · long 话 (literal) → 话/話 · huà · speech 短 (literal) → 短 · duǎn · short 说 (literal) → 说/說 · shuō · to say

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense