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