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long run for a short slide en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A large expenditure of effort for a modest benefit.
    • The tour lasted exactly thirty minutes. Bill said that the trip was “a long run for a short slide.” 2013, Elizabeth Becker, Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism, page 339:
    • For a small burn, with plenty of the patient's own skin available, allograft application is a long run for a short slide. 2004, Arnold Arem, In Our Hands: A Hand Surgeon's Tales of the Body's Most ..., page 204:
    • “We don't give them or go to them unless asked by good friends, and as far as being a source of news,“ added the journalist, “I've never gotten one good story from a dinner party in my life. In that respect they're a long run for a short slide." 1973, The Washingtonian, volume 8, page 98: