| 释义 |
go shortNot have enough of something, especially food: you won’t go short when I die...- Their report - Going Hungry, carried out by the Food Commission - found that 46% of parents on low household incomes had gone short of food in the last year to feed someone else in their family.
- For a hard pressed working class couple it could mean an unpaid gas bill or going short of food.
- It wasn't too long before they started up again, with a different kind of balance (and everyone went short on everything).
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