Usually means: Fail to meet expectations, goals.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. come short: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. come short: Vocabulary.com
  3. come short: Wiktionary
  4. come short: Dictionary.com
  5. come short: Rhymezone
  6. Come Short: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. come short: FreeDictionary.org
  8. come short: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. come short: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. come short: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (come short)

▸ verb:  (+ of) to miss
▸ verb:  (+ of) to be inferior to

Similar:
fall short, go short, come up short, short, stop short, cut short, fail of, miss, shorten, overshorten, more...

Opposite:
succeed, achieve, attain, accomplish, fulfill

Types:
undershoot, fall short, come up short, more...

Phrases:
to come short, come short of, come up short, more...

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Similar:
fall short, go short, come up short, short, stop short, cut short, fail of, miss, shorten, overshorten, more...

Opposite:
succeed, achieve, attain, accomplish, fulfill

Types:
undershoot, fall short, come up short, more...

Phrases:
to come short, come short of, come up short, more...



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