What is the difference between sum it up and long story short ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.

To “sum it up” means I’m just going to give a brief statement/summery of the main points that have happened. So for explain if someone ask “could you were to sum up what you did today” you would just state the main big/important things that happened (almost in like dot point form).


For the meaning long story short means I’m going to basically skip all the boring/unnecessary parts and basically tell you the ending of the story. For example someone may say to you “how did your date go tonight” and it went absolutely terrible but you don’t want to give details why you could respond “well long story short it did not go that well”

I really hope this helped in someway:)