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)
- 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
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