fall short | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)To be lesssatisfactorythan expected; to beinadequateorinsufficient.I did my best, butfellfarshortof the score cutoff.1946July and August, “The Royston Accident, G.N.R., July 3, 1866”, inRailway Magazine, page216:Ample proof that the maintenance of locomotives and track in the mid-Victorian era sometimesfell far shortof present-day standards is afforded by an accident which occurred on July 3, 1866, near Royston, on the Cambridge branch of the Great Northern Railway.2018July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, inBBC Sport‎[1]:They havefallen shorton so many occasions that an England team who rises to the occasion are worthy of the highest praise.2005,Plato, translated by Lesley Brown,Sophist, page245c:But if being is not a whole through being affected by that affection, and there is such a thing as the whole itself, it follows that beingfalls shortof itself.

Examples:

EN: I don't intend to fall short.
ES: Mi intención es no quedarme corto.
EN: But you fall short.
ES: Pero no lo consigues.
EN: Which of us could match that? How does he fall short?
ES: ¿Cómo está a ese nivel?
EN: After all, it's a man-made instrument, It's men who fall short and fail.
ES: Después de todo, es un instrumento hecho por el hombre, son los hombres los que decepcionan y fallan.
EN: Where he seems to me to fall short is in his actual image of the saint.
ES: Donde me parece que se queda corto está en su imagen real del santo.
EN: We got three weeks of the worst logging coming up. And we're liable to fall short. But let me tell you something.
ES: Tenemos tres semanas de talas en lugares imposibles y vamos a intentar recoger lo que se pueda.
EN: - You fall short.
ES: - Te quedas corto.
EN: I think you fall short.
ES: Más bien creo que te quedas corto.
EN: That slug gets to act as a police commissioner. Why should I fall short of him?
ES: ¡Si ese idiota es comisario de policía, entonces yo soy gobernador!
EN: Long enough to see your last pass fall short of the goal line.
ES: Suficiente para ver que tu pase no llegó a la línea de anotación.
EN: This not only provides entertaining reading, but also serves as a warning to members who may be contemplating taking service with gentlemen who fall short of the ideal.
ES: Esto no sólo proporciona una entretenida lectura, sino que también sirve de aviso para los miembros que estén contemplando ponerse al servicio de caballeros que queden lejos del ideal.
EN: Their achievements are grand up here but here where it counts, they fall short.
ES: Sus logros son muy grandes aquí pero aquí, que es donde cuentan, son mínimos.
EN: Maybe I fall short of expectations
ES: Quizás no estuve a la altura.
EN: Adam himself would admit that on a purely mechanical level... his capabilities fall short of what humans are capable of.
ES: El propio Adam reconocería que, en un nivel puramente mecánico sus capacidades son inferiores a las del ser humano.
EN: I would rather fall short by two than exceed by two.
ES: Es mejor que falten dos a que sobren dos.

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