short and sweet

1. 1.

   dealt with very quickly; to the point

   “the conference was short and sweet”

   “make your statement short and sweet”

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Questions about short and sweet

What does short and sweet mean?

short and sweet means "dealt with very quickly; to the point".

Is short and sweet a common word?

short and sweet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.