一言抄百总

一言抄百總
yīyánchāobǎizǒng
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 to cut a long story short
  2. 2 in one phrase, sum it all up

Examples

Yīyánchāobǎizǒng, tā bù yuàn hézuò.
Long story short — he doesn't want to cooperate.
Wǒ yīyánchāobǎizǒng, zánmen jīntiān jiù bǎ shì bàn le.
Cutting to the chase — let's settle the matter today.

Tips

register
Colloquial / regional, less canonical than 长话短说 (chánghuàduǎnshuō, 'long talk, short telling'). here means 'to copy / summarize,' means 'all the various' — so the literal sense is 'one phrase that copies a hundred totals.'

Stroke Order

yán
chāo
bǎi
zǒng