long story short
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C1 used when you do not tell all the details: Long story short, I got fired.Incomplete
(Definition of long story short from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- extent noun
- fragmentary adjective
- half noun, pronoun, predeterminer, adjective, adverb
- imperfect adjective (NOT PERFECT)
- imperfection noun
- in a manner of speaking idiom
- incomplete adjective
- part adverb
- part noun (SOME)
- partial adjective (NOT COMPLETE)
- partially adverb
- partly adverb
- patchy adjective
- scratch/scrape the surface idiom
- semi- prefix
- superficial adjective (NOT COMPLETE)
- unfinished adjective
- up to a point idiom
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