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			the Ivy League the jewel in the crown the joke's on the joker in the pack the jury is out the jury is still out the kiss of death the knives are out the land of milk and honey the last gasp of the last minute the last of the big spenders the last word in the law of averages the law of the jungle the lay of the land the least can do the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing the lesser of two evils the letter of the law the life of the party The lights are on but nobody's-one's home the likes of the lion's share the lions' den the long and the short of it the long arm of the law the love of life the low man on the totem pole the lowest common denominator the lowest of the low the luck of the draw the lull before the storm the main drag the man the man in the street the man of the moment the man on the Clapham omnibus the man on the street the matter in hand the meat and potatoes the men in grey suits the men in white coats the Midas touch the middle ground the milk of human kindness the mind boggles the minute the missionary position the moment of truth the more the merrier			The Lombard League The London Consulting Group The London Court of International Arbitration The London Enterprise Office The London Free Press The London Police The London Skills Institute The London Stock Exchange The London Stock Exchange The London Teaching Pool The London Times The London Tower The London Tower The Lone Gunmen The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger Bobber The Lone Star Command The Lone Star State The Lone Star State The Lone Star State The Loneliest Number The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner The Lonely Island The Lonesome Crowded West The long and the short the long and the short of it The Long and Winding Road The Long Arm of the Law The Long Arm of the Law The Long Arm of the Law The Long Arm of the Law The Long Arm of the Law The Long Arm of the Law The Long Emergency The Long Fall Back to Earth The Long Hair Community The Long Hair Paradise The Long Island The Long Island The Long Island Catholic The Long Kiss Goodnight The Long March The Long March The long march of 1934 The long march of 1934 The Long Parliament The Long Parliament The Long Strange Trip The Long Tail the long term the long term the long term the long term the long term The Long, Twilight Struggle The longest escalator

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