| 单词 | short and sweet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshort and sweet c. Phrase. short and sweet: brief and pleasant; now usually more or less ironically, of an expression that is brief and severe or decisive, or that is excessively or unusually brief. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adjective] compendious1388 briefc1430 short1487 short and sweet1545 curted1568 summarc1575 laconical1576 summary1582 succinct1585 totala1586 laconic1589 concisec1590 compendiary1609 press?1611 curt1631 Spartan1644 nutshell1647 severe1680 Lacedaemonian1780 straightforward1806 uncircumlocutory1808 shorthand1822 Spartanlike1838 unwordy1841 nutshelly1843 tight1870 Spartanic1882 unfarced1890 serried1899 taut1916 1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) sig. Iiv The englyshe prouerbe is thus pronounced. Short, and swete. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 222 Great princes..who haue little spare leisure to hearken, would haue speeches vsed to them such as be short and sweete. a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) iii. i. 55 Tis short and sweete, wryte' this in your' owne hand. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xlix Short and sweet, I pray you. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. viii. 122 After a conversation short and sweet, I left the steward. 1866 Harper's Mag. Oct. 674/2 The letter-book was consulted, and there stood, short and sweet, and right to the point: ‘Dear Sir’ [etc.]. 1882 H. Munby Let. 9 June in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 408 I don't like burning your letters & I don't like to keep them either—short & sweet is what I like from you. 1970 W. Smith Gold Mine xxxv. 92 Reasons first. I'll make it short and sweet, right? < as lemmas |
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