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Expression: "Anyway, just to curtail this long story, she did not..."



 
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Expression: "Anyway, just to curtail this long story, she did not..." #1 (permalink) Mon Sep 03, 2007 16:22 pm   Expression: "Anyway, just to curtail this long story, she did not..."		  
Hi

Is it correct and natural?

Quote:
Anyway, just to curtail this long story, she did not survive.

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Expression: "Anyway, just to curtail this long story, she did not..." #2 (permalink) Mon Sep 03, 2007 16:41 pm   Expression: "Anyway, just to curtail this long story, she did not..."		  
Hi tom,

It's a sort of stylised version of 'to cut a long story short' where the speaker/writer is trying not to use the standard expression, I would say.

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