长话短说
Traditional form:
長話短說
Pinyin (reading):
chánghuàduǎnshuō
Definitions:
- (idiom) to make a long story short; to keep it brief
Characters:
- 长 - long, lasting; to excel in
- 话 - talk, speech; language, dialect
- 短 - brief, short; deficient, lacking
- 说 - to speak, to say; to scold, to upbraid
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