Idiom
get to the point
Meaning
To state (something) directly; as opposed to in a long-winded way.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Please get to the point and tell me what you want.”
“The meeting was taking too long, so I asked the speaker to get to the point.”
“After listening to his long and rambling explanation for twenty minutes, I finally interrupted him and asked him to get to the point.”
Examples
simple
“Please get to the point and tell me what you want.”
contextual
“The meeting was taking too long, so I asked the speaker to get to the point.”
complex
“After listening to his long and rambling explanation for twenty minutes, I finally interrupted him and asked him to get to the point.”
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