Make it brief, Sklifosovskiy
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Make it brief, Sklifosovskiy (Russian: Короче, Склифосовский!) is a popular Russian phrase used to cut short someone's long speech.
[edit] Origins
The phrase has very little to do with the work of famous Russian physician Sklifosovskiy. Actually, it originates from the movie Kidnapping Caucasian Style, or Shurik's New Adventures ("Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика", 1966) [1]. Balbes, a negative character of the movie played by Yuri Nikulin, exclaimed: "Make it brief, Sklifosovskiy!" to Shurik and his friend, the positive characters, who, having disguised themselves as vaccination nurses, commenced a long lecture about the benefits of immunization.
Russians using this phrase are often unaware that it comes from the famous movie.