Better short and sweet, than long and lax.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

Better short and sweet, than long and lax.

They are clearer, more vivid and smoother.

It's more polite to say thin than skinny.

He looks better with long hair than with short hair.

They are larger than ordinary watermelons and are sweet and tasty.

the longness or shortness of something

I prefer Kafka's shorter works more than his longer ones.

Well done is better than well said.

a state of being long and short

There are pros and cons to anything.

There are both merits and demerits in anything.

merits and faults―merits and defects―merits and demerits

The days are getting shorter [longer].

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses.

Everyone has both strong and weak points.

a strong point and a weak point

shorten [lengthen] one's grip

It's better to be approximately right than completely wrong.

long and narrow like a strap

of the length of something, the condition of being shorter than the usual or standard length

Well done is better than well said.

I prefer plump girls to skinny ones.

had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

having little length or lacking in length

the strong and weak points

merits and demerits

Your plan has both strong and weak [good and bad] points.

There are both advantages and disadvantages in your plan.

When it comes to cheese, it's Camembert. More than the taste, it makes me nostalgic.