cut to the chase
Verb
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Verb
- (idiomatic) To get to the point; to get on with it; to state something directly.
- We don't have much time here. Could you cut to the chase?
- 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1):
- Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I don't like to play games, the whole wait three days to text you, flirt with other women in front of you. It's exhausting. Let's just cut to the chase. We're in love with each other.
- cut to Hecuba (dated)
- get on with it
- get to the point
- French: aller droit au but, aller à l'essentiel
- German: auf den Punkt kommen, Butter bei die Fische
- Italian: venire al sodo, venire al dunque
- Russian: (come onto business) перейти́ к де́лу
- Spanish: ir al grano, ir al ajo del asunto, ir al meollo, acortar envites
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