the long and the short of it

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something that you say when you intend to tell someone something in the quickest and simplest way possible Anyway, the long and the short of it is that he's not going to be working for us any more.

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But it's gone, that's the long and the short of it, and you'll just have to change to a red flann'l one till I can get time to make a new one. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context However, the long and the short of it is, that he has asked my permission to make you an offer of marriage--of marriage, you know," said Mr. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context But the long and the short of it is--I'll have nobody in my night-school that doesn't strive to learn what he comes to learn, as hard as if he was striving to get out of a dark hole into broad daylight. Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context More results

? References in classic literature

But it's gone, that's the long and the short of it, and you'll just have to change to a red flann'l one till I can get time to make a new one.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context

However, the long and the short of it is, that he has asked my permission to make you an offer of marriage--of marriage, you know," said Mr.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

But the long and the short of it is--I'll have nobody in my night-school that doesn't strive to learn what he comes to learn, as hard as if he was striving to get out of a dark hole into broad daylight.

Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context

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