come/get to the point

idiom

: to reach the main or most important idea of something that is said or written

It took several paragraphs for her to come/get to the point of her argument.

Examples of come/get to the point in a Sentence

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One thing the company will need to do in order to scale, Curtis said, is to get to the point where their pigs can be bred with ready-to-donate organs, rather than requiring cloning and implantation. —Alex Knapp, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024

Dear Miss Manners: Is there any polite way to encourage someone who is recounting an anecdote to you to come to the point a little faster? —Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024

Is there any polite way to encourage someone who is recounting an anecdote to you to come to the point a little faster? —Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024

Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. —Adam B. Vary, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024

Sid, soft-spoken, radiating a kind of beatific innocence, is the older by almost eight years but seems that many years the younger; Marty, fidgeting while Sid tells some long story, will jump in to get to the point. —Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023

Keep it short and clear Your emails should be welcoming, but also quick to get to the point. —Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023

You’re poised to get to the point where these external forces are going to expect a certain thing from you. —Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023

Then get to the point of the conversation: Figuring out how to move forward. —Jay Deitcher, SELF, 24 Oct. 2023