it's a long story
something that you say when someone has asked you about something that has happened and you do not want to explain it to them because it would take too long:
"So why was Carlo knocking on your door at midnight?" "It's a long story."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Defining & explaining
- (do you) see what I mean? idiom
- account (to sb) for sth
- accountable
- cast
- clarify
- convey
- demystify
- descriptive
- every picture tells a story idiom
- evocative
- evoke
- explicable
- explicate
- fill
- frame
- get sth across
- scene
- schematic
- that is to say ... idiom
- unfold
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