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单词 the long and short of
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the long and (the) short of (it, etc.)
b. the long and (the) short of (it, etc.): all that can or need be said; the sum total, substance, or essence of (the subject under discussion); (also) the eventual outcome or result, the upshot. Cf. earlier the short and the long at short n. 2.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > consequently or as a result [phrase] > sum total or upshot
the shorta1500
summa summarum1567
the sum of sums1592
the long and the short of1622
1622 J. Taylor Sir Gregory Nonsence sig. B3 But to the purpose here's the long and short ont.
1670 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina 431 This is the long and the short of it.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 15 July 2/2 This is, Sir, the long and the short of the Matter.
1770 S. Foote Lame Lover ii. 50 And that, Mr. John, is the long and the short on't.
1830 Mirror of Lit. 27 Mar. 213/1 The long and the short of the story is this.
1899 W. Besant Orange Girl i. ix. 97 The long and the short of it..is that you must pay me this money.
1916 B. Drillien tr. P. Mille Louise & Barnavaux ii. 239 It is so much more to their interest to be devils, but they simply can't, and that's the long and short of it.
1966 Irish Times 30 Mar. 10/1 Clive Gammon..has given us the long and the short of all the sport that abounds in our territorial and largely unguarded seas.
2002 B. Johnston tr. J. Pilch His Current Woman iv. 20 The long and the short of it will be that for weeks on end everybody will be offended with everybody else to the point that no one will be speaking to anyone.
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