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elevator speech

elevator speech
 n.— «Elevator speech: a short two- or three-minute briefing.» —“Gold Mine of Gobbledygook” by Bryan Brumley in Washington, D.C. AP May 18, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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