Meaning of COME UP SHORT - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles #shorts
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So in English when we say someone has "come
up short" it means that they didn't reach
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a goal that they set for themselves.
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So let's imagine that you set a goal to save
up $100 this month in order to buy something
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that you want to buy and every week you put
a little bit of money away so that you can
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save up the $100 that you need.
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And then at the end of the month you check
and you've only saved up $90.
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We would say that you have come up short.
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You didn't save the amount of money that you
had planned.
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You didn't reach your goal.
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And another way to say this is to say that
you fell short.
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So often times people set goals in life and
then they come up short or they fall short
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and they don't quite attain the goal that
they set for themselves.
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I hope you guys always attain your goals.
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