说来话长

shuōláihuàcháng

Hard to say within few words; complicated condition that can't be explained with few phrases.

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It is a long story.

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It is a long story.

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shuo1 lai2 hua4 chang2

start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly

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说来话长

shuō lái huà cháng

dwell on it at greater length; cannot explain all that in just a few words; It's a long story to tell.; It would take too long to tell that in full.; thereby hangs a tale.

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說來話長|说来话长 [shuō lái huà cháng] ► start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly