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short and sweet en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Efficiently brief in duration, especially when referring to a task that becomes unpleasant when prolonged.
    • The staff meeting was short and sweet today.
    • Our conversation was short and sweet / It nearly swept me off-a my feet 1975, Bob Dylan, “You're a Big Girl Now”, in Blood on the Tracks:

Forms

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most short and sweet Degree=Sup lexicographic
shorter and sweeter Degree=Cmp lexicographic
shortest and sweetest Degree=Sup lexicographic
more short and sweet Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Relateds

KISS

Translations (3)

es breve y agradable (Translations) · pl krótki i zwięzły (Translations) · pl krótki i węzłowaty (Translations)