in a word 手っ取り早く言えば [てっとりばやくいえば] /(exp) in a word/to put it briefly/to make a long story short/ ------- 早い話が [はやいはなしが] /(exp,adv) in short/in a nutshell/in a word/to cut a long story short/ ------- 早く言えば [はやくいえば] /(exp) in a word/to put it briefly/to make a long story short/ ------- 要するに [ようするに] /(exp,adv) in a word/after all/the point is .../in short .../to put simply/the long and short of it is that ..../(P)/ |