short measure
Example Sentences
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When we talked over coffee last Thursday morning, we moved from the merits of dumbphones to intense, existential topics in short measure.
From The Verge • Mar. 23, 2016
With another golf piece, written for the Talk of the Town section in 2000, the New Yorker for once received short measure from a favoured son.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2012
And instead of going even a short measure towards healing the open emotional wounds of its inhabitants, the stark concrete and steel fabric of Wormwood Scrubs aggravates and exacerbates them.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2010
The frauds detected, last week, amounted to giving "short measure" to the reputed extent of $12,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The consequence is that every man that can possibly afford it carries his own steelyard, in order to check the tradesmen who might be inclined to give them short measure.
From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)
