Terms for subject General containing long story short

English	Russian
cut a long story short	чтобы не тянуть кота за хвост (suburbian)
to cut the long story short	короче (Alex_Odeychuk)
long short story	повесть (Anglophile)
long story short	в двух словах (virgoann)
to cut a long story short	вкратце (suburbian)
to cut a long story short	короче
to cut a long story short	если в двух словах, то
to cut a long story short	одним словом
to cut a long story short	словом (used to end an account of events quickly: To cut a long story short, I married Stephen. NOED. To cut a long story short, we both spent the night in jail. Alexander Demidov)
to cut a long story short	короче говоря (suburbian)
to make a long story short	проще говоря (Amica_S)
to make a long story short	одним словом (AlexandraM)
to make a long story short	короче говоря (Rust71)