You’ve probably said this when someone is telling you a long winded story or a confusing joke “just cut to the chase!” but what does that even mean… “the chase”?
It goes back to the silent film era. All those movies back then used to be really long love stories that would always end with some crazy thrilling car chase or something. So it was a way to tell someone to skip all the boring details and get to the good exciting part.
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