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Long Story Short – Real Storytelling Chunks
Examples
- Long story short, everything went wrong.
- Next thing you know, I’m late again.
- To make matters worse, my phone died.
- Things snowballed fast after that.
- Before I knew it, I was in real trouble.
Vocabulary
- long story short : to summarize
- next thing you know : suddenly
- to make matters worse : to add another bad thing
- snowball : grow bigger quickly
- to top it all off : the final bad thing
- before I knew it : very quickly
- spiral out of control : become chaotic
- soaked to the bone : completely wet
- in the mix : involved in chaos
- escalate : grow worse fast
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