长话短说 — Chinese idiom
长话短说
cháng huà duǎn shuō
Traditional: 長話短說
Meaning
- to make a long story short; to keep it brief
Character by character
- 长chánglong, lasting; to excel in
- 话huàtalk, speech; language, dialect
- 短duǎnbrief, short; deficient, lacking
- 说shuōto speak, to say; to scold, to upbraid
Idioms sharing a character
- 一技之长 yī jì zhī cháng
- 一长一短 yī cháng yī duǎn
- 来日方长 lái rì fāng cháng
- 各显所长 gè xiǎn suǒ cháng
- 土生土长 tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng
- 大排长龙 dà pái cháng lóng
- 天长地久 tiān cháng dì jiǔ
- 天长日久 tiān cháng rì jiǔ
- 好景不长 hǎo jǐng bù cháng
- 寓意深长 yù yì shēn cháng
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