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long story short 

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.)
long story short by acidnoir July 23, 2010

Long Story Short 

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!

long story short 

to summarize a longer story (short for to make a long story short)
Yes, but long story short you need to work harder.

Short story long 

Something that could have been told in a more concise way but is dragged out because the teller doesn't know how to tell a story. It's a play on the annoying clarifier, "Long story short," people use to sum up a digression, which really never seems to be that short anyway. So instead you say the opposite.
So I was walking into the store the other day, I wanted to get some aspirin because I had this massive headache and I walked down aisle four but they only had Tylenol but that doesn't work and I went to the counter and short story long this guy was holding up the store!
Short story long by adk132 December 8, 2009
Word of the Day on December 12, 2009

long short story 

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.*
long short story by user8857 June 21, 2018
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