the long and short of it

the long and short of it
(the long and (the) short of it (тж. the short and (the) long of it))
короче говоря, вкратце, одним словом

Hector: "...Violet and I are married: that's the long and the short of it." (B. Shaw, ‘Man and Superman’, act IV) — Гектор: "...Виолетта и я поженились. Вот и все."

I told her to be careful, last night, the way they were getting their knife into her, and in she comes, half an hour ago, and tells me they've had a regular dust-up and the long and short of it all is, my lady's sacked. (J. B. Priestley, ‘Angel Pavement’, ch. VI) — Говорила я ей вчера, что надо быть осторожнее, раз уже есть люди, которые хотят ее выжить; а сегодня, полчаса тому назад, она является с новостью, что у них была основательная чистка, - короче говоря, наша мисс уволена.

Well, the long and the short of it was, after our mate was killed we held a stopwork meeting. (K. S. Prichard, ‘Winged Seeds’, ch. XXII) — Словом, когда обвалом убило нашего товарища, мы созвали митинг.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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