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short and sweet
[ shawrtuhn sweet ]
/ ËÊÉrt Én Ëswit /
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pleasantly brief and relevant: We're in a hurry, so make it short and sweet.
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short and sweet
Satisfyingly brief and pertinent, as in When we asked about the coming merger, the chairman's answer was short and sweetâit wasn't going to happen. This expression was already proverbial in 1539, when it appeared in Richard Taverner's translation of Erasmus's Adagia. Over the years it was occasionally amplified, as in James Kelly's Scottish Proverbs (1721): âBetter short and sweet than long and lax.â
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