short and sweet

English

Adjective

short and sweet (comparative more short and sweet or shorter and sweeter, superlative most short and sweet or shortest and sweetest)

1. Efficiently brief in duration, especially when referring to a task that becomes unpleasant when prolonged.

   The staff meeting was short and sweet today.

   • 1975, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “You're a Big Girl Now”, in Blood on the Tracks:

     Our conversation was short and sweet / It nearly swept me off-a my feet

See also

• KISS