short strokes

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The final steps of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious. idiomatic,plural,plural-only
    — He knows they are in the short strokes—it's almost over.
  2. Bare essentials. idiomatic,plural,plural-only
    — She can evoke an entire scene in short strokes, as in this from "The Wamsutter Wolf": "This trailer was in ruins, broken-backed because its west end had slipped off the cinder-block supports. All the windows had been shot out."

词汇关系

衍生词
down to the short strokes
相关词
broad strokes

词源

Possibly an allusion to painting, in which a painter typically finishes a work with short, careful, finishing strokes of the paint brush, or to golf, in which a player concludes each hole by making short strokes with a putter.
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