not waste words
If someone does not waste words, they talk only about what is important using as few words as possible:
He explained the whole system in about 30 seconds - he doesn't waste words, does he?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not saying much
- a man/woman of few words idiom
- abrupt
- brief
- cat
- concise
- crisp
- curt
- few
- has the cat got your tongue? idiom
- laconic
- pithy
- quiet
- quietly
- reticent
- taut
- terse
- wall
- walls have ears idiom
- waste
- well chosen
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