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{{quote|''"Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief."''
|Polonius, ''[[Hamlet]]''}}
A sister trope to [[It's a Long Story]], this is a [[Stock Phrase]], usually pulled out when a character sums up something really complicated with a few choice words. Either that, or they're using the phrase ironically.
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* ''[[Scrubs]]'': Kelso uses this a lot. To give one example: "I was one of the most promising young shortstops ever to come out of Altoona Pennsylvania. Then came the Dominicans. Long story short...calling them all 'Pepe' was apparently just racist enough to get me a life-long ban from the Appalachian Rookie League."
* An episode of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' had her friend Wallace happily taking his sweet time, now that he got to tell the story about how he weaseled information out of somebody, getting to the point. After which he summed up with, "To make a long story short..." to which she replied "Ha!"
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{{quote|'''Willow''': Oz is a werewolf.
'''Buffy''': [[It's a Long Story]].
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