in short

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

in short

1. As a summary; as a shortened version of what has been told or what would have been told.
   • 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC:

     [H]e told me I did not treat him as if he was my husband, or talk of my children as if I was a mother; and, in short, that I did not deserve to be used as a wife.

   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     Mr Snagsby has dealt in all sorts of blank forms of legal process; in skins and rolls of parchment; in paper—foolscap, brief, draft, brown, white, whitey-brown, and blotting; in stamps; in office-quills, pens, ink, India-rubber, pounce, pins, pencils, sealing-wax, and wafers; in red tape, and green ferret; in pocket-books, almanacs, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands—glass and leaden, penknives, scissors, bodkins, and other small office-cutlery; in short, in articles too numerous to mention.

   • 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 13:

     I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.

   • 2008 December 4, Kate Pickert, “A Brief History of Recounts”, in Time‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-08-15:

     Most political experts expect the Minnesota election to be decided in the courts or even in the state senate. In short, it's a mess.

Synonyms

• at the end of the day, in a nutshell, in a word, in summary; see also Thesaurus:in summary

Translations

as a summary

• Arabic: بِاخْتِصَار
• Bashkir: ҡыҫҡаһы (qıśqahı), оҙон һүҙҙең ҡыҫҡыһы (oźon hüźźeñ qıśqıhı); әйтәгүр (əytəgür)
• Catalan: en resum (ca), tot plegat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總之／总之 (zh) (zǒngzhī)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: in het kort
• Finnish: lyhyesti sanottuna
• French: en bref (fr), en résumé (fr), en un mot (fr)
• Greek: εν συντομία (el) (en syntomía), εν ολίγοις (el) (en olígois)

  Ancient: ἐν βραχεῖ (en brakheî), ἔμβραχυ (émbrakhu)

• Italian: in breve, in quattro parole, in sostanza
• Japanese: 要するに (ja) (yōsuruni)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: i korthet (no)

• Persian: خلاصه (fa) (xolâse)
• Polish: w kilku słowach, w skrócie (pl)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: коро́че говоря́ (koróče govorjá)
• Tocharian B: aultsorsa
• Ukrainian: коро́тше ка́жучи (korótše kážučy)
• Yiddish: אַ כּלל (a klal)

Anagrams

• Rishton, hornist