- long and the short of it
- substance or essential part; main point (e.g. "He can look on the front page of the paper for the long and the short of this story")
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
long and the short of it
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long and short of it — {n. phr.} The essence; the whole story in a nutshell. * /The long and short of it is that he is lazy and doesn t really want to find a job./ … Dictionary of American idioms
