fall short

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SEE DEFINITION OF fall short

as ingo without
as inlet down
as inlose
as inmisfire
as inmiss
as inshrink
as inwane
as inmiscarry
as infail
as inflop

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Shall God's fiction, which is man's reality, fall short of man's fiction?

My words do not carry its august sense; they fall short and cold.

When we grow truthful, it may be forgiven us if we fall short of wit.

And was she, Anastasia, to fall short in such a simple craft?

So long as we fall short of the state of unity we are in the stage of immaturity.

To fall short of this, is to fall short of what it means to be a man.

These doctrines are thus found to fall short of the Kantian criticism.

The difficulty is, of course, not to undershoot, to fall short.

Is it not enough that I should fall short of you in actual fighting?

But the distance is doubtful, and the shots might fall short.

WORD ORIGIN

Old English sceort, scort "short, not long, not tall; brief," probably from Proto-Germanic *skurta- (cf. Old Norse skorta "to be short of," skort "shortness;" Old High German scurz "short"), from PIE root *(s)ker- (1) "to cut," with notion of "something cut off" (cf. Sanskrit krdhuh "shortened, maimed, small;" Latin curtus "short," cordus "late-born," originally "stunted in growth;" Old Church Slavonic kratuku, Russian korotkij "short;" Lithuanian skurstu "to be stunted," skardus "steep;" Old Irish cert "small," Middle Irish corr "stunted, dwarfish").

Meaning "having an insufficient quantity" is from 1690s. Meaning "rude" is attested from late 14c. Meaning "easily provoked" is from 1590s; perhaps the notion is of being "not long in tolerating." Short fuse in figurative sense of "quick temper" first attested 1968. To fall short is from archery. Short run "relatively brief period of time" is from 1879. Short story first recorded 1877. To make short work of "dispose of quickly" is first attested 1570s. Phrase short and sweet is from 1530s. To be short by the knees (1733) was to be kneeling; to be short by the head (1540s) was to be beheaded.

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