A fork of Rural Dictionary
Something a person says halfway through a long, pointless story with trivial details that are interesting to nobody except the storyteller.
(Fifteen minutes of droning blather). Long story short, (fifteen more minutes of rambling digressions.)
to summarize a longer story (short for to make a long story short)
Yes, but long story short you need to work harder.
Taking a long story and summarizing its main points, skipping over unnecessary details
I wanted to tell you all about my amazing day , but long story short, I totaled your car!!
A phrase describing the process of eliminating the silly extraneous nonsense, and delivering only the good stuff, that's long story short.
After a 10 day trip across the Heartland, well...long story short...we got engaged!
a short story that takes a long time to tell
*Over complicates story and adds details that are unnecessary.* "Anyways, long short story..." *Continues to over complicate story and add details that are unnecessary.*