something that you say when you intend to tell someone something in the quickest and simplest way possible.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is that he's not going to be working for us any more.

• cold snap
• cold-turkey
• cold turkey
• Colonel Blimp
• come a cropper
• come across
• come across as
• come across someone
• come across something
• Come again?
• come again
• come a gutser
• come along
• come along for the ride
• come a long way
• come apart
• come apart at the seams
• come around
• come around to
• come around to something
• come at a price
• come back down to earth
• come back down to earth with a bang
• come back down to earth with a bump
• come back down to earth with a jolt