The story is a slow-moving mystery that's long on atmosphere and short on tension.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
Long Hello and Short Goodbye — is a 1999 German thriller produced by Studio Hamburg Letterbox Filmproduktion and co authored by Jeff Vintar and Martin Rauhaus.The film features a recently released safe cracker named Ben, and an undercover police agent named Melody. Melody s… … Wikipedia
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long and short of it — {n. phr.} The essence; the whole story in a nutshell. * /The long and short of it is that he is lazy and doesn t really want to find a job./ … Dictionary of American idioms
long and short of it — {n. phr.} The essence; the whole story in a nutshell. * /The long and short of it is that he is lazy and doesn t really want to find a job./ … Dictionary of American idioms
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the long and short — or the long and the short phrasal gist … New Collegiate Dictionary
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