Right, so 'to cut a long story short' means to tell only the main or important parts of a story – not all the details. Hmm, that's a shame Rob because I'm sure you had lots more to tell me. Rob ...

I have to cut a long story short.” Like all good satire, there’s an undercurrent of seriousness. Beneath the one-liners and literary allusions, O’Neill offers a critique of the racial and ...