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come up short

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The cops had come up short, unable to find the two men in a sea of several hundred thousand law-abiding people.

But for more rigorous sweat sessions, the low-sodium drink does come up short in replenishing the salt your body loses.

But my attempts to interview actual hipsters always come up short.

Another piece might cause people to come up short is an elaborate green Burmese Buddhist alms bowl on a stand covered in gold.

To put it mildly, Obama has come up short on each of these metrics.

She'll come up short jest as ef she was alive, and that's something, seeing as this is a hundred-ton digger.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to come up short, such as: decline, drop, fall, miss, succumb, and yield.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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