the long and the short of it

the long and the short of it

• • 要点,梗概;总的意思;总之;归结起来 [亦作 the short and the long of it]
  • = the short and the long of it [见 long ]

• air motor
• technocracy
• FAX telegraph
• file an appeal
• psychotropics
• Habacuc
• picture
• allurings
• photogrammetries
• monicker
• bloody flag
• darning eggs
• compartmented
• wordies
• atomic transmutation
• soutaches
• uws
• whirligig beetle
• make someone's blood creep (或 freeze)
• adipopexia
• salami
• relieves
• statistical
• hyperons
• osteophony
• flip up
• raise/lower your sights
• decriminalising
• infuser
• biggie
• break step
• Mbutis
• nuclear moments
• fire hat
• genealogized
• school of thought
• fight one's way back to
• encoop
• proclitic
• thalliums
• kinetic chain length
• overskirt
• crooknecks
• disappoint by
• Waldeyer's Ring
• difference encoding
• mistreatments
• capeline
• get on
• boschvark
• January thaw
• croton oils
• huon pines
• deter sb from
• reason of state
• kallidin
• retarding basin
• astronomical figures
• pillar crane
• petrography
• soft-shell crabs
• telephotoes
• fitting rooms
• on the low side
• unheralded
• from the chairman / president / top etc downwards
• peavine
• Stutz, Harry Clayton
• announcement
• acerbically
• there is no mistaking someone
• slot machines
• as...as the sun shines on
• calando
• upper-level trough
• maneuverers
• nucleophile
• dice for
• play therapy
• distance mark
• bubonocele
• sumptuousnesses
• apraising
• make a prize of
• scapegoater
• firefinder
• laras
• linear transformations
• posterolateral
• fewtrils
• dinner clothes
• benefactrixes
• doras
• 'fraid cat
• not (all) that long / many etc
• band-spread tuning
• sanctimoniousness
• pirozhkis
• versals
• osteomata