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Explain the comment: ‘More matter with less art (II.ii,95)
-- Ragnar Orn (94996@vma.is), October 12, 2003
Basically: "Get to the point and stop being a long-winded, pretentious old cunt"
-- Patrick Walker (the_right_hand_of_doom@msn.com), October 13, 2003.
Or, more precisely: get to the point (the substance of the matter) without trying to be rhetorically or eloquently clever, or to beat about the bush thinking you'll save our feelings.
-- catherine england (catherine_england@emailaccount.com), October 15, 2003.