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Definition of Fall short
1. Verb. Fail to meet (expectations or standards).
Definition of Fall short
1. Verb. (idiomatic) to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall Short
Literary usage of Fall short
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"... says that she demanded the fourth part of the proceeds of each night, but on
this MI:U proving to fall short of the fixed salary, asked for £100. ..."
2. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1832)
"... are not to fall short through your fickleness. • O, by heavens ! cried I,—if
fickleness is taxable in France,—we have nothing to do but to make the best ..."
3. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"In order that an independent society may form a society LECT. vi political, it
must not fall short of a number which cannot be in OT(ier fixed with ..."
4. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... and if the apportionment to make a parish or district fall short of or exceed
the ratio, then a district may be formed having not more than two senators ..."
5. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1890)
"I assure you, every idea you can form of our distresses will fall short of the
reality. There is such a combination of circumstances to exhaust the patience ..."
6. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society (1880)
"... bnt that our effort to recall him a* be was may fall short of what justice to
his memory TCA Memoir of the Hon. John Lowell. John Lowell, the oldest of ..."
7. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"But even though they did express fully the race of industrial and financial Titans
that now has us in its grip, they would still fall short of being ..."
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