# long story short

Pronunciation: US say "lawng stor-ee SHORT" /ˌlɔŋ ˌstɔɹi ˈʃɔɹt/; UK say "long stor-ee SHAWT" /ˌlɒŋ ˌstɔːɹi ˈʃɔːt/; AUS say "long-STOR-ee-short"

## Idiom

1. Used to introduce a condensed version of a story, or simply its conclusion, with the intervening details omitted.
   - Simple: Used when you tell only the ending or main point of a story, not all the details.
   - _She spent months negotiating with the landlord; long story short, they never signed the lease._
   - _Long story short, the merger fell through and both companies walked away with nothing._

## Origin

This is a shortened form of the phrases "to cut a long story short" and "to make a long story short."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/long-story-short (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).