Did you know…?
…that ‘cut
to the chase’ came from the silent films in the 1920s. The films
would almost always end
with a chase scene, preceded by obligatory romantic storylines. According to The Phrase Finder, this phrase was written in Joseph
Patrick Mcevoy's novel Hollywood Girl, 1929, as a script direction.
Today it means getting to
the point, leaving out all of the unnecessary details.
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