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Complete or consume quickly, as in The children made short work of the ice cream , or They made short work of cleaning up so they could get to the movies . This term, first recorded in 1577, in effect means “to turn something into a brief task.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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