Communication
keep it short and sweet
make it brief and pleasant
To keep something short and sweet means to make it brief, simple, and pleasant.
Hear it in real life
What should I write in the card?
Just keep it short and sweet.
She kept her thank-you speech short and sweet.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: Keep it short and sugary.
Say: Keep it short and sweet.
“Short and sweet” is a fixed expression; do not replace “sweet” with a literal synonym.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
keep it short and sweet; kept the message short and sweet
Your turn: say it out loud
She kept her thank-you speech short and sweet.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
keep it short and sweet
make it brief and pleasant
“She kept her thank-you speech short and sweet.”
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