長話短說 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 长话短说 chánghuàduǎnshuō ㄔㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄕㄨㄛ to make a long story short to keep it brief idiom Character by character 長(cháng)long 話(huà)dialect 短(duǎn)short 說(shuō)speak A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0