This is an all ears English podcast episode 2416. Long story short, make sure you don't bore your friends in English.

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before it even gets started is too many irrelevant details. Listen in today to find out how to use

one elegant phrase to cut out the details and build the drama.

Hello there, Michelle. How's it going today? Are you a little tired? It sounds like you were up doing laundry late last night. I was up doing laundry late last night. Basically, I made a mistake and I

put too big of a load in the

washer and that was fine, but I put it in the dryer and I didn't realize it didn't completely

dry and I didn't check on it for like a day and I went in last night and it just was smelled

rancid. It was disgusting.

And so long story short, I had to kind of use vinegar and then wash everything again and figure that whole thing out.

So I didn't get to sleep until late.

That was late.

All right.

So you had quite a dramatic night in the laundry room last night. And I heard some really great bonus words in there, rancid, a really good one.

Yeah.

But what I want to highlight from what you just said is the phrase long story short.

Yes.

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