Chase是“追赶”，这个短语是什么意思呢？请看对话：

    A: Is there anything wrong with my car?

    B: The engine is the only thing wrong with your car — to cut to the chase, it is loud, really loud.

    Note: This idiom means to “talk about or deal with the important parts of a subject and not waste time on things that are not important. This phrase originated in the U.S. film industry. Many early silent films ended in chase sequences preceded by obligatory romantic storylines. The first reference to it dates back to that era. The figurative use, that is, the generalized “get to the point” meaning emerged in the 1940s. For example, a piece from the New England newspaper The Berkshire Evening Eagle, February 1947 read: “Let’s cut to the chase. There will be no tax relief this year.”