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whodunit n. a detective story.I love to read a good whodunit every now and then.I go through about three whodunits a week.
idiomstory► a cock and bull story► a shaggy dog storyto cut a long story short(also to make a long story short AmE)spoken used before a statement to tell people that because the story you are telling them is long and complicated, you are only going to give them the most important facts:"Why did you break up with your previous girlfriend?" "Well, to make a long story short, her parents didn't like me and they wouldn't let us get married." My daughter went out to Japan on a six-week exchange, and to cut a long story short, ended up working there for five years.a hard-luck storySympathize a story that you tell someone in order to make them feel sorry for you:Then he went round Mrs Emmons' shop and gave her a hard-luck story, and she gave him five quid.She had her own hard-luck story: two marriages, two troubled kids, and a drink problem.
See:- (but) that's another story
- (it's/that's the) story of my life
- (that's a) likely story
- a cock and bull story
- a cock-and-bull story
- a fish story
- a hard-luck story
- a likely story
- a shaggy-dog story
- a sob story
- a tall story
- a tall tale
- a/one side of the picture
- a/one side of the story
- a/one side of the story/picture
- another story
- Banbury story
- Banbury story of a cock and a bull
- bedtime story
- break a story
- break the news
- break the/a story
- cock and bull story
- cock-and-bull story
- cover story
- don't give me that story
- don't hand me that story
- don't let the facts get in the way of a good story
- End of Story
- every picture tells a story
- fairy tale
- fish story
- fish story, a
- hard luck
- inside story
- it's a long story
- it's an old story
- it's the old story
- it's the same old story
- it's the story of my life
- land (something)
- likely story
- long story short
- make a long story short
- make a long story short, to
- old story
- old story, an
- pitch (one) a line
- pitch (one) a story
- pitch (one) a yarn
- pitch a line/story/yarn
- same old story
- same old story, the
- scare story
- shaggy dog story
- shaggy-dog Story
- so the story goes
- so the story goes...
- sob story
- spin (one) a story
- story of (one's) life
- story of my life, that's the
- story of my life, the
- story stock
- tall story
- tell a different story
- tell a different, another, etc. tale/story
- tell another story
- tell its own story
- tell its own tale/story
- tell the same story (of something)
- tell the same tale (of something)
- tell the same tale/story
- that's my story and I'm sticking to it
- that's the story of my life
- the story goes (that)
- There are two sides to every question
- to cut a long story short
- to make a long story short
- top story
- upper story
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