Don't do anything short of your best.
We did not buy anything because we were short of money.
The girls were asked to wait on tables because the kitchen was short of help.
The day's drive still left us a hundred miles short of the ocean.
The golfer's shot fell far short of the hole.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
Short — Short, a. [Compar. {Shorter}; superl. {Shortest}.] [OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. {Shirt}.] 1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Short — Short, n. 1. A summary account. [1913 Webster] The short and the long is, our play is preferred. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. [1913 Webster] The first remove above bran is… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Short — Short, adv. In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one s course; to turn short. [1913 Webster] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. [1913 Webster] {To… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
