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გამოთქმა: /ˈstɔːri/

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Universal
  • 1an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment:an adventure story I’m going to tell you a story
  • a plot or storyline:the novel has a good story
  • a piece of gossip; a rumour:there have been lots of stories going around, as you can imagine
  • informal a false statement; a lie:Ellie never told stories—she had always believed in the truth
  • 2a report of an item of news in a newspaper, magazine, or broadcast:stories in the local papers
  • 3an account of past events in someone’s life or in the development of something:the story of modern farming the film is based on a true story
  • a particular person’s representation of the facts of a matter:during police interviews, Harper changed his story
  • [in singular] a situation viewed in terms of the information known about it or its similarity to another:having such information is useful, but it is not the whole story United kept on trying but it was the same old story—no luck
  • (the story) informal the facts about the present situation:What’s the story on this man? Is he from around here?
  • 4the commercial prospects or circumstances of a particular company:the investors' flight to profitable businesses with solid stories

but that's another story

informal used after raising a matter to indicate that one does not want to expand on it for now.

end of story

see end.

it's a long story

informal used to indicate that, for now, one does not want to talk about something that is too painful or complicated.

it's (or that's) the story of one's life

informal used as a resigned acknowledgement that one has experienced a particular misfortune too often: ‘He’s more likely to have run off with a dancer,’ Laura said bitterly. ‘It’s the story of my life.’

the story goes

it is said or rumoured:the story goes that he’s fallen out with his friends

to cut (or North American make) a long story short

used to end an account of events quickly:to cut a long story short, I married Stephen

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