Possible Clues:

• Terse to the point of rudeness
• Shrub with bright autumn colours
• Flood of baseball
• Snappy cricket stroke picking up runs
• Terse and laconic
• Dismissively short
• With A in the end it's a hanging matter, in short
• In short, the brute will come to tea
• Discourteously brief
• In short, with A in the end it's for a hanging