WordNet
n. the actual state of affairs; "that's the size of the situation"; "she hates me, that's about the size of it" [syn: size]
Usage examples of "size of it".
That was about the size of it, in fact: it was just going to be a handful of days away from Biemestren, that was all.
Elayne had been startled at the size of it, too, though thankfully she had not let on to Thom or Juilin.
Newt looked at me for a minute and I looked back at him and he took out our roll, which I don't guess you could call a roll anymore from the size of it, and he peeled off another twenty and a ten and added them to the three twenties from his shirt pocket.
It was enough to make any man come all over greedy, he thought, yet the size of it made sense once he'd had a look at Kilthan's maps.
A fistful of stories of where I'd been and what I'd seen, but that would have been the size of it.
It was freshly painted and judging by the size of it, a half gallon would have done the job.