Meaning of COME UP SHORT - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles #shorts

So in English when we say someone has "come up short" it means that they didn't reach

Entonces, en inglés, cuando decimos que alguien " se quedó corto", significa que no alcanzó la

a goal that they set for themselves.

meta que se había fijado.

So let's imagine that you set a goal to save up $100 this month in order to buy something

Así que imaginemos que te fijas la meta de ahorrar $100 este mes para comprar algo

that you want to buy and every week you put a little bit of money away so that you can

que quieres comprar y cada semana guardas un poco de dinero para poder

save up the $100 that you need.

ahorrar los $100 que necesitas.

And then at the end of the month you check and you've only saved up $90.

Y luego, al final del mes, verifica y solo ha ahorrado $ 90.

We would say that you have come up short.

Diríamos que te has quedado corto.

You didn't save the amount of money that you had planned.

No ahorró la cantidad de dinero que había planeado.

You didn't reach your goal.

No alcanzaste tu objetivo.

And another way to say this is to say that you fell short.

Y otra forma de decir esto es decir que te quedaste corto.

So often times people set goals in life and then they come up short or they fall short

Muy a menudo, las personas establecen metas en la vida y luego se quedan cortas o se quedan cortas

and they don't quite attain the goal that they set for themselves.

y no alcanzan la meta que se propusieron.

I hope you guys always attain your goals.

Espero que siempre logren sus metas.