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長話短說

chánghuàduǎnshuō

ㄔㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄨㄛ

Simplified 长话短说

  1. 1(idiom) to make a long story short; to keep it brief
Example

長話短說,她上了禁飛名單,回來時還可能有一架無人飛機跟著我們。

chánghuàduǎnshuō tā shàng le jìn fēi míngdān huílai shí hái kěnéng yǒu yí jià wúrén fēijī gēnzhe wǒmen

Long story short, she’s on the No Fly List and we might have been followed here by drone.

Keep 長話短說 and it comes back until you know it.

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