I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brief/short description
▪ There's only a brief description of the hotel on the Internet.
a brief/short message
▪ She left a short message on his answering machine.
a brief/short spell
▪ After a brief spell in a florist's shop, she became a hairdresser.
a brief/short visit
▪ Miss Russell was only able to pay a brief visit.
a brief/short/long hiatus
▪ There was a brief hiatus in the war.
a brief/short/slight pause
▪ "Well, that was a surprise," he said after a brief pause.
a light/short sentence (=a short time in prison)
▪ We’re hoping that he gets off with a light sentence.
a little/short rest
▪ He decided to stop and take a short rest.
a little/short sleep
▪ I always have a little sleep in the afternoon.
a little/short while ago
▪ Tom got a letter from him just a little while ago.
a little/short while
▪ Wait a little while before deciding.
a long/short illness
▪ She nursed him through his long illness.
▪ Arthur died following a short illness.
a quick/short temper (=likely to get angry very easily)
▪ He’s got a quick temper, which gets him into trouble.
a short account
▪ What follows is a short account of the legal procedure.
a short course
▪ I did a short course on website design.
a short distance
▪ I quickly walked the short distance to the car.
a short story
▪ He has published two collections of short stories.
a short time
▪ A short time later, she heard him drive away.
a short vacation
▪ a short vacation at the beach
a short walk
▪ The house is only a short walk from local shops.
a short word
▪ a short word beginning with ‘d’ and ending with ‘g’
a short/brief ceremony
▪ He became acting president in a brief ceremony yesterday.
a short/brief period
▪ He lived for a short period in Manchester.
a short/brief silence
▪ After a brief silence, Katherine nodded.
a short/brief statement
▪ Police last night issued a brief statement about the incident.
a short/brief stay
▪ No visa is required for short stays.
a short/little nap
▪ A short nap may make you feel better.
a short/little/small laugh
▪ He let out a nervous little laugh.
a short/long ride
▪ I climbed slowly aboard the bus for the long ride to Hawkesworth.
a short/quick break
▪ Shall we have a quick five-minute break?
a short/short-term lease
▪ These flats are let on short leases to students.
a slight/short delay
▪ There was a slight delay in the departure of the plane.
(as) thick as two short planks (=very stupid)
at short notice (=without much time to prepare)
▪ Thank you for coming to help at such short notice.
be short of breath (=be unable to breathe easily because you are ill, old etc)
▪ Near the top of the mountain I started to feel short of breath.
Bermuda shorts
bicycle shorts
board shorts
boxer shorts
brief/short
▪ The band had rather a brief existence.
▪ The show's existence was extremely short.
cycling shorts
fall below/fall short of sb's expectations (=be worse that someone hoped or expected)
▪ Our profits last year fell below expectations.
fall short of a target (=achieve less than you wanted to)
▪ Car production at the plant has fallen short of its target by 5%.
fall short of your ideals (=not be as good as you think something should be)
▪ In appearance, she fell somewhat short of his ideals.
have a short memory (=if you have a short memory, you soon forget things)
▪ Voters have short memories.
Jockey shorts
long/short blast
▪ a long trumpet blast
long/short
▪ I was very tired after the long flight.
long/short
▪ She was thrilled to get a long letter from her son.
long/short
▪ He read out a long list of errors.
on short rations (=given a smaller amount than usual)
▪ We were on short rations .
short and snappy
▪ Keep your answer short and snappy.
short attention span
▪ Children often have a short attention span.
short back and sides
short circuit
short cut
▪ Carlos decided to take a short-cut home.
short hop
▪ It’s just a short hop from Cleveland to Detroit.
short list
▪ Davies was on the shortlist for the Booker Prize.
short on...but long on
▪ He was short on patience, but long on a sense of his own worth.
short story
short wave
short
▪ Her nails were short and uneven.
short
▪ They were married last month after a short engagement.
short
▪ These mowers only work efficiently on short grass.
short
▪ I like your hair when it’s short like that.
short
▪ Its tail is short and pointed.
short/brief
▪ The chairman opened the meeting with a brief speech.
short/long skirt
▪ a short skirt and high heels
sth is nothing short of a miracle (=it is extremely unexpected and you are very pleased about it)
▪ What has happened is nothing short of a miracle.
stop dead/short/in your tracks (=stop walking suddenly)
▪ Sally saw the ambulance and stopped short.
the quickest/shortest route
▪ We took the shortest route back to the hotel.
the short answer is ... (=used when giving a simple, honest, or direct answer to a difficult question)
▪ ‘How does homeopathy work?’ ‘The short answer to this question is that we do not know how homeopathic remedies work.’
walk a mile/200 metres/a short distance etc
▪ We must have walked ten miles today.
▪ I walked all the way to San Rafael.
well short of
▪ This total falls well short of the sum required.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
far
▪ Above all, the coercive force at the disposal of the Tsar fell far short of its imposing image.
▪ This enterprise has so far fallen far short of its targets, but it remains a high priority.
▪ In fact Carter's performance in office fell far short of his and other people's expectations.
▪ But the plan fell far short of the integrated approach to neighborhood conservation that was being called for.
▪ But just how far short is anyone's guess - and a guess that few are prepared to make.
▪ As expected, the 240-159 vote fell far short of the two-thirds majority needed to prevail.
▪ It will fall far short of actual experimentation.
▪ But the evidence is that most of these mergers have fallen far short of their promise.
just
▪ Zone-five players were not just shorter than their opponents.
▪ Cornerback Darnell Walker stopping Williams just short of a first down, killing a critical fourth-quarter Dallas drive.
▪ Fifteen seconds earlier he had been knocked down and lay on the canvas as the referee counted just short of a knockout.
▪ Here are the stories of some who stopped just short of that precipice.
▪ This was the railway which crossed over the Corporation tramway just short of the Selby Road boundary.
▪ He was knocked out just short, but Young quickly got the touchdown on a sneak.
▪ Poor man, he died in 1989, just short of his eightieth birthday.
▪ Critics stopped just short of charging the Spin Doctors with malpractice.
much
▪ Some projects may have a much shorter cycle.
▪ The petiole is much shorter than the blade.
▪ Set gill-nets are much shorter, and are used mostly in shallow coastal seas, where they are anchored to the seabed.
▪ Also, she learned that she had been under anesthesia for a much shorter time than she had thought.
▪ Mercifully, the remaining two complaint stories of the Numbers series are much shorter.
▪ Brennan points out that Westminster Cathedral contains far more bodies than Newgrange, from a much shorter period of use.
▪ The dorsal arm spines are the longest nearly two arm segments in length, the ventral arm spines are much shorter.
▪ Five hours is much shorter than normal Voice over Cotwold Council officers say they're not running a vendetta against the Hintons.
relatively
▪ Schools Specialised buildings for the education of children have a relatively short history in Britain.
▪ Thus the bulk of Laurentia came together in the relatively short time span of 150 million years.
▪ On the whole, though, relatively short sentences offer the advantage of helping you to keep your writing clear and understandable.
▪ Most of those are autopsied and then released to a mortuary in a relatively short period of time.
▪ Even those with relatively short memories in either country should be aware of that.
▪ During the relatively short treatment, the therapist helped the patient to begin discussing her feelings with her family.
▪ Successes such as this suggest that remedial actions are feasible and can bring beneficial effects in a relatively short time.
so
▪ How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time?
▪ Graham complains that some sound bites that survived the editing process were so short as to defy understanding.
▪ Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time?
▪ Kenny, this is so short!
▪ Life is so, so short.
▪ The fish feed in the breakers, so shorter casts work better.
▪ No wonder the days were so short and the nights so long.
▪ Since money is so short she has gone by herself most of the time.
too
▪ Life, for me, is certainly not too short to stuff a mushroom.
▪ Was hope in too short supply in our home?
▪ However, notice which is too short is unlikely to comply with the underlying spirit of the Rule.
▪ Each of our thoughts is too short.
▪ But study stints that are too short will merely increase your anxiety.
▪ And often the time allotted is too short for fluency.
▪ Life is too short to continue hating anyone for a long time.
▪ No one is ever going to tell you that a proposal is too long or too short.
very
▪ The stone fell very short, landing not far from his hiding-place.
▪ One year is a very short time.
▪ She was given a very short expectation of life by the doctors.
▪ Phone conversations should be very short.
▪ It is a very short leap from euphoria to despair and back again.
▪ After a very short time, potassium diffuses out of the cell and the previous electrical situation is restored - repolarisation.
▪ I stayed with Venturous throughout the seventies with the occasional trip on Valiant and a very short period on Vigilant.
▪ But very short time limits may be vulnerable under the principle.
■ NOUN
answer
▪ That short answer gives rise to two further questions.
▪ The short answer is yes, some but not nearly enough.
▪ The short answer to that is that we don't know.
▪ A well-structured short answer is better than a weakly-structured long answer.
▪ A: The short answer is no.
▪ Well, the short answer to this comes in one word, experience.
▪ The short answer is that nobody knows.
course
▪ The project's residential workers are not qualified therapists, though many have received external training on short courses.
▪ I receive a short course in geophysics, punctuated by the tectonic lessons of the region through which we are driving.
▪ For external short courses we are concerned to get value for money.
▪ Special short courses are available in July and August.
▪ You may find it helpful to take a short course on managing continence.
▪ Books and short courses can provide you with more ideas.
▪ For dairy farmers shorter courses were run but travel could still be considerable and some found it very difficult to attend.
▪ This can be fulfilled mainly by attendance at short courses, conferences and lectures.
cut
▪ Moral: minor roads are only a short cut if you know where you are!
▪ Oncoming bikers seemed intent on taking the short cut up and over the Aussie's Nissan.
▪ Cars daren't risk taking the short cut.
▪ Pen Lane, now widened for parking, was one of the original short cuts around the church.
▪ Under pressure, an advice worker may be tempted to take short cuts.
▪ She took them by a short cut to the Weinbaum Canal.
▪ She died because she took a short cut across waste ground even though she knew that the murderer was at large in that area.
▪ In the pressure to get to the Moon by the end of the decade, management short cuts had been taken.
distance
▪ They had then walked the short distance to Park Lane, her hand in the crook of James's arm.
▪ A short distance away lay Emain Macha, royal seat of the hereditary kings of Ulster.
▪ She walked the short distance to work, seeing nothing of the beauty of the day.
▪ A short distance away was the overturned buggy, but there was no sign of either the horse or the Ellingwood5.
▪ The vehicles will go through deep drifts for short distances when the momentum of the vehicle will carry it through.
▪ The shortest distance between two points appeared to be a zigzag.
▪ There are many social facilities available and also Farmoor reservoir only a short distance away.
▪ As I approached Lovat and the two Officers, a shell burst a short distance away.
drive
▪ No dinner is offered but there are many and varied eating establishments within a short drive.
▪ The Greco-Roman ruins, a short drive away, were thronged, but this amplified, rather than diminished, our visit.
▪ Unfortunately, this is not the case with many millions of people whose backache is worse after even a short drive.
▪ The park, a short drive south of downtown, is open from late May to early October.
▪ A short drive will take you to the Downs and Ashdown Forest.
▪ Woodbridge is 10 minutes away, several other courses within a short drive.
▪ It was a short drive from the city.
flight
▪ Access to the dining room in the north-east corner of the main block was then made via a short flight of stairs.
▪ He watches four men trying to drag a doorless refrigerator up the short flight of steps into the band shell.
▪ Those who do not fancy long haul can share short flights between two or three budding pilots.
▪ It was a short flight, only a hundred miles.
▪ Both Langkawi and Kuantan are reached by short flights.
▪ Frankie stared towards the shorter flight of steps leading to the landing.
▪ They sat on stubby pillars at the bottom of a short flight of steps leading to the parade square.
▪ The upper-level dining gallery and sitting-room are reached from the living-room via short flight of open-riser timber stairs.
hair
▪ A medallion in Hughes Hall portrays her with short hair, an aquiline nose, and a determined chin.
▪ To this day, I believe the only thing that saved him from a beating was his short hair.
▪ The wind was blowing over the top of Jinny's head, fluttering the loose, short hairs round her forehead.
▪ He is tall, a marathoner, with salt-and-pepper short hair.
▪ If you get in a fight, short hair is an advantage since your opponent can not grasp it.
▪ She ran her hands through her short hair.
▪ You've got short hair, you've got a moustache now, and you wear glasses.
▪ It is useful for short hair, and can be fingered in wherever you need it.
life
▪ The courageous two-year-old has spent all his short life in hospital.
▪ He was dreaming; maybe it was the way he would dream for the rest of his short life.
▪ Evidence suggests that shrews probably have the shortest lives.
▪ Jessica Dubroff developed a passion for airplanes and horses in her short life.
▪ Newspapers, toilet paper or tissues are all short life items which could be made from recycled reserves.
▪ In his short life, he had been a paratrooper and a physician, specializing in infectious diseases.
▪ Ricotta has a very short life and should be bought and used daily.
▪ This means that the parasites live shorter lives and pass through more generations in a given time than their hosts.
list
▪ Readers at Borders Books shops helped to choose the short list.
▪ The equity department was planning a boat trip to become further acquainted with the trainees on its short list.
▪ By the end of 1981 Corby was chosen from a very short list of places.
▪ It gave her a short list of problems and asked her to solve them.
▪ The previous year, four of the six novels on the short list were about growing up in the Soviet era.
▪ This year, six titles made the short list, out of 200 submitted.
▪ Successive rounds of screening bring into play more criteria until the short list is reached.
▪ After being selected from a short list of five people, I was finally not offered the position.
notice
▪ Working conditions may not be up to much, and as a casual employee you can be fired at short notice.
▪ His armour was piled not three yards away, arrayed ready to be donned at short notice.
▪ They're also prepared to do the ground spraying on short notice.
▪ When a march is organised at short notice, as much notice as practicable must be given.
▪ Part C. A short notice teaching session - 20 minutes.
▪ You have no idea how difficult it was to find a hundred overalls and hats at such short notice.
▪ The Helsinki summit, arranged at very short notice, dealt almost exclusively with the specific issue of a major regional conflict.
order
▪ A piece of good news for Bill Clinton in Congress was followed, in short order, by the opposite.
▪ We got to Pecos in short order and turned north for Carlsbad.
▪ Collectively they squandered their pricing power in short order.
▪ He gave me his curriculum vitae in short order.
▪ It did, and in pretty short order.
▪ But, in short order, Lott orchestrated deals on a range of stalled legislation, from welfare reform to health care.
▪ A short order may be made, for example, to give a parent the opportunity to return to court with legal representation.
▪ I charmed him in short order.
period
▪ In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell, east London.
▪ The necessary hours of light can not be replaced by more intensive light sources operating for a shorter period of time.
▪ This will enable the distribution to be completed over a shorter period.
▪ Generally, this condition persists for only a short period as the enzyme system usually becomes functional within several days after birth.
▪ Occasionally, however, this current is displaced and a warm southward-flowing current prevails for short periods.
▪ Affected fish are dipped in such a solution for a short period and then can be safely returned to the pool.
▪ These have short periods, from a few days to a few weeks.
▪ Those with the longer periods received higher payments than those with shorter periods and were more likely to have retired early.
range
▪ The Helblaster has a strength of 5 at short range and 4 at long range.
▪ Most significantly in the short range, it could leave 49ers' offensive tackle Steve Wallace twisting in the wind.
▪ Morris claimed the third from short range.
▪ Normal saving throw modifiers apply: -2 at short range and -1 at long range.
▪ The heavy armament comprised 1,000 artillery pieces, but many were obsolete or short range.
▪ Viewed head-on from short range the animal is exceedingly hard to spot, provided it stands still.
▪ Another situation where I have been prepared to use a tube stem is for short range drifting.
▪ No need to be particularly careful at such short range.
run
▪ However, in the short run, numerous factors may operate to cause changes in supply.
▪ Of course, IRAs cost the Treasury in the short run.
▪ Governments, like theoretical economists, tend to be mainly concerned with the short run.
▪ The Stanislaus River is dammed fourteen times on its short run to the sea.
▪ Although this is the socially efficient output in the short run it is not efficient in the long run.
▪ Restructuring will lead to declining continuity in the short run, even if improved organizational balance eventually develops.
▪ This could follow if the capital goods producing industries faced capacity constraints in their attempt to raise output in the short run.
▪ The problem worsens with the relentless financial pressures for immediate performance in the short run.
sentence
▪ Use short sentences to make your points clearly.
▪ A proper language allows you to pack a lot of meaning into a short sentence.
▪ Notoriously, he wrote in very short sentences.
▪ These books contain short sentences, simple words, and repetitive phrases, designed for early readers.
▪ Go through each group separately, thinking of two short sentences about each name in the group.
▪ Hemingway's short sentences derive their power from their revolt against earlier, more discursive styles.
▪ They will have to pass shorter sentences.
▪ It is easier to think clearly with short sentences than long ones.
shrift
▪ Commanders who undervalued or ignored Ultra get short shrift.
▪ Therefore, any management book worthy of the name should have that as a pivotal issue, not give it short shrift.
▪ I gave that idea short shrift.
▪ The notion got short shrift in Washington.
▪ Unfortunately the deeper issues surrounding the cloning of a human being have received short shrift or no attention at all.
▪ And in government, accounting systems give the long term short shrift.
▪ As we shall see later these sources often receive short shrift in many of the papers.
▪ A lot of people are uncomfortable praising others; they give the good points short shrift.
skirt
▪ The shorts were pleated about the waist and flared widely, giving an illusion of being a too short skirt.
▪ She was wearing a uniform with a very short skirt and a white col-lar and lapels.
▪ I felt so cross with myself, so stupid for wearing a short skirt.
▪ I didn't wear a short skirt for ages after that.
space
▪ Life, for the short space of a few weeks, was better than she had ever known it.
▪ In fact it took them a very short space of time only three weeks to build the test raft ready to launch.
▪ Within a short space I have been concerned to make two basic points in this chapter.
▪ In such a short space of time, he had plunged from the pinnacle of success to the depths of defeat.
▪ It is of course an impossible task to examine the record of Marxism in such a short space as I have available.
▪ That was an extraordinarily fine achievement in such a short space of time.
▪ I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time.
▪ The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time.
spell
▪ A short spell of hard work in quiet surroundings would not be a bad thing.
▪ No one will benefit from such a short spell.
▪ We assumed that for each participant the occurrence of short spells followed a Poisson distribution.
▪ Considerable excess residual variation was found in the rate of sickness absence for short spells.
▪ Thus, an illness that tends to require frequent short spells in hospital will appear to have a high incidence.
▪ Quiet at Bidford, but short spells of action with chub and roach around midday at Welford.
▪ There were even short spells when I sculled without error, helping to create a reasonably smooth pattern with my illustrious partner.
▪ This seems to happen after a short spell off road.
stay
▪ During his short stay in Madeira, he was a great benefactor of the island.
▪ Gandhi stayed in Champaran seven months, and returned for two shorter stays.
▪ Very often they moved on again after a short stay, for they found that reality was harsher than their dreams.
▪ They promised short stays, more contacts with the outside world and treatment that stressed returning children home whenever possible.
▪ I went every day at the same time, in fact, over the period of my short stay.
▪ Two troops deployed nearby to the west, awaiting a short stay at camp.
▪ Anyway, her short stay on board had at least served some purpose.
▪ Lamm also expects to spend some of his short stay in Silicon Valley chatting with potential donors.
story
▪ F fable A short story in prose or verse which is written so that a moral may be learnt from it.
▪ In these short stories Asimov gives us an unforgettable and terrifying vision of the future.
▪ James McMurtry is an unusual singer-songwriter, a gentle, thoughtful troubadour who writes songs that unfold like short stories.
▪ What they do have, though, is a literary tradition, which reveres the short story.
▪ I wrote four or five fairly short stories a week.
▪ Pandora also promote short story writers by publishing Storia, a twice-yearly short story magazine.
▪ In this type of short story, large claims are made about the effect of the reading experience.
supply
▪ We could only use candles it night if we were working, because they were in very short supply.
▪ People embody intelligence, by far the most precious resource in the universe and one in terribly short supply.
▪ Rural housing within reach of farm workers has come to be in even shorter supply.
▪ Food was in such short supply that she was genuinely concerned that her two babies might get scurvy.
▪ Here, where clean drinking water is in short supply, expensive drugs are beyond ordinary people's reach.
▪ And it was true that accredited math teachers were in short supply.
▪ And that's really the story for this afternoon, with sunshine in short supply.
▪ The automaker was particularly vulnerable because it keeps only a short supply of extra parts to save costs.
term
▪ Fund raising campaigns are simpler to organise and sustain when they are short term sprints aimed at quickly achievable goals.
▪ In the short term, the administration budget would produce lower payments by the government for each visit, the official predicted.
▪ I've had a very short term contract for each show.
▪ But they say that around £100 million is needed to ensure such projects are economically viable in the short term.
▪ It seemed as if he received a shorter term in jail because he was a doctor.
▪ You will be pleased to know that the discomfort is only short term and should not occur in the future.
▪ In the short term the road to Nice has plenty of hurdles.
▪ Even marriage into the royal family only assured such support in the short term.
time
▪ Sartori had disappeared a short time later.
▪ As a result of her actions, Amelia became even more popular and within a short time was practically running Ogontz.
▪ He stayed there only a short time before moving to Gloucestershire where he has been ever since.
▪ Despite all the talk expected to come from both sides, they know they are operating in a short time frame.
▪ Sekers Service Supreme Breaking all records, Sekers supplied a customer with specially woven cloth in an amazingly short time.
▪ He passed me a short time ago.
▪ To improve, she attended an art class in Sheffield for a short time.
▪ I do not feel able to postpone an order for possession for more than a very short time indeed.
walk
▪ I decide to go out for cigarettes; a short walk will do me good.
▪ From La Fonda it was only a short walk to the Ernest Blumenschein house.
▪ It is next to Friston Forest with its forest walks and picnic areas, and is a short walk from the sea.
▪ The next day I left the house only once, for a short walk to the pond.
▪ Compared to the previous day this is a short walk whether you choose the high or low route.
▪ Afternoons ended at the Gundy, the school teahouse, a short walk up the hill.
▪ The house is only a short walk from local shops and there are regular buses to the City Centre.
▪ The coeducational school was just a short walk for all of them.
while
▪ On the day of the wedding, just for a short while, all strife was laid aside.
▪ Just got here a short while ago.
▪ Odd individuals kept swimming away, only to return a short while later.
▪ The few dollars collected would help to maintain the cause, at least for a short while.
▪ He went out and Sisteradmission-ward came in for a short while, and we reconstructed the story.
▪ After a short while, Nelson reluctantly entered the testing room with the psychologist.
▪ Sure enough, in a short while a girl called Mitti turned up.
▪ When she returned a short while later, she found the 27-year-old Cosby fatally wounded.
work
▪ It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
▪ Flexible and shorter work weeks are a win-win situation for both the employee and employer.
▪ It made short work of our Windows performance tests, WinTach, clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3.
▪ Use quotation marks around the names of short works such as newsletter articles.
▪ Carmen would have made short work of Michael too.
▪ In spite of the shorter work day, total production increased and hourly production increased dramatically.
▪ Guernsey made short work of the opposition when they won the event on home soil in 1990.
▪ The second game we pull away early and make short work of it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(since sb was) in short pants
a short fuse
▪ And you don't fool with those because things are on a shorter fuse in Beirut.
▪ Every nerve smouldered on a short fuse.
▪ She was standing there crammed full of enthusiasm and energy like a bomb on a short fuse.
▪ Tom's a chap with a temper on a short fuse anyway.
▪ Wright has a short fuse, and without the goals going in his situation is worsening.
▪ You may find your temper on a short fuse when confronting your child or teenager for the umpteenth time.
a short space of time
▪ I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time.
▪ In old age several major losses may occur within a short space of time.
▪ In such a short space of time, he had plunged from the pinnacle of success to the depths of defeat.
▪ Just how much things can change in a short space of time.
▪ Still, he had been knocked out twice in a short space of time and would appreciate some rest.
▪ That was an extraordinarily fine achievement in such a short space of time.
▪ The problem is getting the material under control in order to reach ambitious learning goals in a short space of time.
▪ The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time.
at short notice
▪ Both players pulled out of the competition yesterday at short notice.
▪ Occasionally, tours may have to be cancelled at short notice.
▪ One of the players dropped out at short notice.
▪ He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director, Bill Naysmith.
▪ Many laboratories have cooperated at short notice and are analysing large numbers of samples.
▪ Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice, so you have to be flexible.
▪ Occasionally tours may be cancelled at short notice owing to circumstances beyond our control.
▪ The landlord could also terminate the arrangements at short notice.
▪ There is an aversion to holding meetings at short notice with a diminished complement.
▪ These alternatives will not always be available at short notice but it might be possible to plan for them.
▪ Working conditions may not be up to much, and as a casual employee you can be fired at short notice.
bring sb up short/with a start
cut sb short
▪ I tried to explain but she cut me short.
▪ I was halfway through my explanation when Walter cut me short.
cut sth short
▪ His death at the age of 38 cut short a brilliant career.
▪ The ten-day mission was cut short when one of the shuttle's navigation devices failed.
draw the short straw
▪ I'm only here because I drew the short straw.
▪ Rose had drawn the short straw, and was thus forced to seek Lord Westbourne clasping the Romanov dagger.
fall short of sth
▪ The results fell far short of our expectations.
▪ Anything less than this is a measure of the extent to which the research falls short of scientific standards.
▪ By 1951 the Labour government had built 900,000 houses, falling short of its target of 240,000 dwellings a year.
▪ Even in the best of years, Journal news coverage inevitably falls short of perfection.
▪ On the other hand, if the firm falls short of covering its fixed costs, a loss will be incurred.
▪ Reality has a way of falling short of the ideal.
▪ The results fell short of eight analysts' forecasts of profit between 130 million and 127 million pounds.
▪ The trainers suggest that, as guards, they fell short of expectations.
flexible/short-time etc working
▪ An outside problem can sometimes be helped by, say, more flexible working hours and so be resolved at management level.
▪ Earnings might vary because of piece-work, overtime or short-time working.
▪ Flexible Hours Question: Has consideration been given to the introduction of flexible working hours?
▪ Meanwhile, solicitors were last week urged to consider flexible working for staff in line with the government's family friendly policies.
▪ Recruitment procedures focus on individual skills and potential for flexible working.
▪ Through grants to local authorities, we are financing schemes to introduce more flexible working practices - such as job sharing.
▪ Vauxhall bosses admit that the threat of short-time working at Ellesmere Port still remains a possibility.
▪ Wage freezes have been brought in across most of the company and some short-time working introduced.
in the long/short/medium term
in the short run
▪ Although this is the socially efficient output in the short run it is not efficient in the long run.
▪ He predicted more volatile dealings in the short run.
▪ However, in the short run, numerous factors may operate to cause changes in supply.
▪ It showed the company that Orrick was willing to make a commitment to them by losing some money in the short run.
▪ Of course, IRAs cost the Treasury in the short run.
▪ The problem worsens with the relentless financial pressures for immediate performance in the short run.
▪ The recipients did not, and in the short run simply could not, spend the majority of their extra revenue.
▪ This could follow if the capital goods producing industries faced capacity constraints in their attempt to raise output in the short run.
life's too short
long-stemmed/short-stemmed etc
make short/light work of sth
▪ But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home.
▪ Carmen would have made short work of Michael too.
▪ Fourth placed Guisborough made short work of the opposition at Saltburn.
▪ Guernsey made short work of the opposition when they won the event on home soil in 1990.
▪ It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
▪ It made short work of our Windows performance tests, WinTach, clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3.
▪ The second game we pull away early and make short work of it.
▪ Willie Thorne made light work of the promising Nottinghamshire youngster, Anthony Hamilton, as he eased into the last 16.
sell sb/sth short
▪ Don't sell this guy short - there's more to him than just good looks.
stop short of (doing) sth
▪ Shepherd stopped short of calling him a liar.
▪ Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.
▪ Eric Gray charged back up the court before stopping short of the center line.
▪ Even if it stops short of this extreme, retroactive cost justification is largely ineffective.
▪ He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.
▪ I know people who would maim and yet stop short of murder.
▪ In fact, no general pattern is discernible, except that almost all stop short of full accountability to Parliament.
▪ Yet the argument against Ashdown's triumphalism has to stop short of encouraging the same fatal hubris among Labour politicians.
to cut a long story short
▪ I was a waitress in a bar and he was one of my customers, and that, to cut a long story short, is how we met.
to cut a long story short
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 'What does she look like?' 'She's short and fat, with brown hair.'
▪ a short-sleeved T-shirt
▪ a short course in aromatherapy
▪ a short pause in the conversation
▪ A short while later, the doorbell rang.
▪ a short, stocky man with powerful shoulders
▪ a book of short stories
▪ Brad is fairly short and stocky.
▪ Chris went for a short walk to clear his head.
▪ Do you know any short cuts to the hospital?
▪ Graham made a short speech of thanks after the ceremony.
▪ I've just been living here a short time.
▪ It's a short drive from the airport.
▪ It would have been better if they'd closed the road for a short period of time while the repairs were done.
▪ Ken gave a short speech at the award ceremony.
▪ Mr Haddad was several inches shorter than his wife.
▪ Please write a short paragraph explaining your reasons for applying to this college.
▪ Sandy took a short cut home.
▪ She has short curly hair and wears glasses.
▪ The chapters are really short, so I read a couple every night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was always widely feared that the narrow time frame was far too short and would work against an effective peace.
▪ I really do feel this way for a short time.
▪ I said after a short pause.
▪ Perhaps more significant are the events in the remaining and short history of the Rochdale Co-operative Manufacturing Society.
▪ Suddenly, every day seems just that little bit shorter.
▪ The problem worsens with the relentless financial pressures for immediate performance in the short run.
II.adverbPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(since sb was) in short pants
a short fuse
▪ And you don't fool with those because things are on a shorter fuse in Beirut.
▪ Every nerve smouldered on a short fuse.
▪ She was standing there crammed full of enthusiasm and energy like a bomb on a short fuse.
▪ Tom's a chap with a temper on a short fuse anyway.
▪ Wright has a short fuse, and without the goals going in his situation is worsening.
▪ You may find your temper on a short fuse when confronting your child or teenager for the umpteenth time.
a short space of time
▪ I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time.
▪ In old age several major losses may occur within a short space of time.
▪ In such a short space of time, he had plunged from the pinnacle of success to the depths of defeat.
▪ Just how much things can change in a short space of time.
▪ Still, he had been knocked out twice in a short space of time and would appreciate some rest.
▪ That was an extraordinarily fine achievement in such a short space of time.
▪ The problem is getting the material under control in order to reach ambitious learning goals in a short space of time.
▪ The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time.
at short notice
▪ Both players pulled out of the competition yesterday at short notice.
▪ Occasionally, tours may have to be cancelled at short notice.
▪ One of the players dropped out at short notice.
▪ He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director, Bill Naysmith.
▪ Many laboratories have cooperated at short notice and are analysing large numbers of samples.
▪ Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice, so you have to be flexible.
▪ Occasionally tours may be cancelled at short notice owing to circumstances beyond our control.
▪ The landlord could also terminate the arrangements at short notice.
▪ There is an aversion to holding meetings at short notice with a diminished complement.
▪ These alternatives will not always be available at short notice but it might be possible to plan for them.
▪ Working conditions may not be up to much, and as a casual employee you can be fired at short notice.
bring sb up short/with a start
cut sb short
▪ I tried to explain but she cut me short.
▪ I was halfway through my explanation when Walter cut me short.
cut sth short
▪ His death at the age of 38 cut short a brilliant career.
▪ The ten-day mission was cut short when one of the shuttle's navigation devices failed.
draw the short straw
▪ I'm only here because I drew the short straw.
▪ Rose had drawn the short straw, and was thus forced to seek Lord Westbourne clasping the Romanov dagger.
fall short of sth
▪ The results fell far short of our expectations.
▪ Anything less than this is a measure of the extent to which the research falls short of scientific standards.
▪ By 1951 the Labour government had built 900,000 houses, falling short of its target of 240,000 dwellings a year.
▪ Even in the best of years, Journal news coverage inevitably falls short of perfection.
▪ On the other hand, if the firm falls short of covering its fixed costs, a loss will be incurred.
▪ Reality has a way of falling short of the ideal.
▪ The results fell short of eight analysts' forecasts of profit between 130 million and 127 million pounds.
▪ The trainers suggest that, as guards, they fell short of expectations.
flexible/short-time etc working
▪ An outside problem can sometimes be helped by, say, more flexible working hours and so be resolved at management level.
▪ Earnings might vary because of piece-work, overtime or short-time working.
▪ Flexible Hours Question: Has consideration been given to the introduction of flexible working hours?
▪ Meanwhile, solicitors were last week urged to consider flexible working for staff in line with the government's family friendly policies.
▪ Recruitment procedures focus on individual skills and potential for flexible working.
▪ Through grants to local authorities, we are financing schemes to introduce more flexible working practices - such as job sharing.
▪ Vauxhall bosses admit that the threat of short-time working at Ellesmere Port still remains a possibility.
▪ Wage freezes have been brought in across most of the company and some short-time working introduced.
in the long/short/medium term
in the short run
▪ Although this is the socially efficient output in the short run it is not efficient in the long run.
▪ He predicted more volatile dealings in the short run.
▪ However, in the short run, numerous factors may operate to cause changes in supply.
▪ It showed the company that Orrick was willing to make a commitment to them by losing some money in the short run.
▪ Of course, IRAs cost the Treasury in the short run.
▪ The problem worsens with the relentless financial pressures for immediate performance in the short run.
▪ The recipients did not, and in the short run simply could not, spend the majority of their extra revenue.
▪ This could follow if the capital goods producing industries faced capacity constraints in their attempt to raise output in the short run.
life's too short
long-stemmed/short-stemmed etc
make short/light work of sth
▪ But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home.
▪ Carmen would have made short work of Michael too.
▪ Fourth placed Guisborough made short work of the opposition at Saltburn.
▪ Guernsey made short work of the opposition when they won the event on home soil in 1990.
▪ It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
▪ It made short work of our Windows performance tests, WinTach, clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3.
▪ The second game we pull away early and make short work of it.
▪ Willie Thorne made light work of the promising Nottinghamshire youngster, Anthony Hamilton, as he eased into the last 16.
sell sb/sth short
▪ Don't sell this guy short - there's more to him than just good looks.
stop short of (doing) sth
▪ Shepherd stopped short of calling him a liar.
▪ Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.
▪ Eric Gray charged back up the court before stopping short of the center line.
▪ Even if it stops short of this extreme, retroactive cost justification is largely ineffective.
▪ He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.
▪ I know people who would maim and yet stop short of murder.
▪ In fact, no general pattern is discernible, except that almost all stop short of full accountability to Parliament.
▪ Yet the argument against Ashdown's triumphalism has to stop short of encouraging the same fatal hubris among Labour politicians.
the long and (the) short of it
▪ The long and short of it is that I had too much to drink and said something I shouldn't have.
▪ There you are, the long and the short of it.
to cut a long story short
▪ I was a waitress in a bar and he was one of my customers, and that, to cut a long story short, is how we met.
to cut a long story short
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Attempts to introduce drift-nets into neighbouring New Zealand waters were more short lived.
▪ Charles was short, heavyset, and forty-three years old.
▪ He had short black hair, a scruffy moustache and a pointed nose.
▪ It is the record of a glory that was short lived, but makes an illustrious event in Aarau's history.
III.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
baggy
▪ He dressed in baggy shorts and Hawaiian print shirts, but there was nothing relaxed about his working methods.
▪ She wore a pair of baggy blue shorts and a U of M sweatshirt.
▪ He started hinting at this: stood in the doorway in those baggy navy shorts of his, bowlegged.
▪ Wu Tak Seng himself is sitting on a varnished wooden chair in his doorway, in singlet and baggy shorts.
blue
▪ He was wearing black or navy blue shorts.
▪ She wore a pair of baggy blue shorts and a U of M sweatshirt.
▪ Two workers casually dressed in navy blue shorts and singlets were already in the process of unloading the unwieldy hospital bed.
▪ I pointed to the blue shorts.
khaki
▪ Servants bow and scrape. Khaki shorts replaced by abrasive long trousers for the evening.
▪ A guy in khaki shorts was carrying a video camera.
▪ He rather looked like one of the comics on television who will always wear his khaki shorts half way to his ankles.
▪ The Hong Kong police wore khaki shorts and stockings.
▪ He wore a pair of khaki shorts and a faded blue shirt, with sandals on his feet.
▪ A shaggy bearded bear of a man in a smock and khaki shorts.
▪ Long, muscled legs were shown to full advantage by a pair of crisp khaki shorts.
long
▪ Players want longer shorts for practical reasons as much as anything and the nostalgic look is simply another trend.
running
▪ Prague was the last stadium where I wore conventional running shorts.
▪ In moments he was kitted out in a singlet and a pair of running shorts.
white
▪ I looked up and saw Jamila hurrying towards me in black T-shirt and white shorts.
▪ I sat on the rocky slope above Gay Acres, not wanting to stain my white shorts on the grass.
▪ Top, from left: Red and white striped shorts £5.99, Hennes.
▪ I shower in lukewarm water and decide on thick white running shorts and matching top which I put on in slow motion.
▪ Hugh wore a pair of neat white shorts which made him look ready for tennis.
▪ She wore white shorts and a blue blouse with white stars.
■ NOUN
boxer
▪ He strips down to his T-shirt and striped boxer shorts.
▪ Joe explained that oversized jeans were necessary to showcase wildly patterned boxer shorts.
▪ With stars'n' stripes boxer shorts worn on the outside.
▪ He dressed like a willful teenager, favoring jeans so tattered you could see his boxer shorts through them.
▪ Standing over her is an overweight middle-aged man in a pair of paisley boxer shorts.
▪ In his boxer shorts, wearing his glasses, Wyatt felt himself shaking.
▪ But those boxer shorts were Calvin Klein and nearly new.
▪ Can you imagine a male presenter wearing peek-a-boo boxer shorts showing more than a hint of his you-know-what?
■ VERB
dress
▪ She was dressed in white shorts, a pale jacket and flat shoes.
▪ Two workers casually dressed in navy blue shorts and singlets were already in the process of unloading the unwieldy hospital bed.
▪ He dressed in baggy shorts and Hawaiian print shirts, but there was nothing relaxed about his working methods.
▪ She'd dressed for breakfast in shorts and T-shirt and it wasn't the ideal outfit for talking business with hotel managers.
wear
▪ I saw young men with disheveled hair and shirts of all colors and hairy-legged youths wearing shorts.
▪ Today, all-round utility player, Clive Smott, will wear the keepers' shorts even though Slack is two sizes bigger.
▪ Heck, I wear tank tops and shorts all the time.
▪ Prague was the last stadium where I wore conventional running shorts.
▪ They wore shorts and halters, shirts and jeans.
▪ The big question is: Will Dessie wear cycle shorts?
▪ The bike agents have the same uniforms as other agents except that they wear shorts instead of pants.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(since sb was) in short pants
a short fuse
▪ And you don't fool with those because things are on a shorter fuse in Beirut.
▪ Every nerve smouldered on a short fuse.
▪ She was standing there crammed full of enthusiasm and energy like a bomb on a short fuse.
▪ Tom's a chap with a temper on a short fuse anyway.
▪ Wright has a short fuse, and without the goals going in his situation is worsening.
▪ You may find your temper on a short fuse when confronting your child or teenager for the umpteenth time.
a short space of time
▪ I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time.
▪ In old age several major losses may occur within a short space of time.
▪ In such a short space of time, he had plunged from the pinnacle of success to the depths of defeat.
▪ Just how much things can change in a short space of time.
▪ Still, he had been knocked out twice in a short space of time and would appreciate some rest.
▪ That was an extraordinarily fine achievement in such a short space of time.
▪ The problem is getting the material under control in order to reach ambitious learning goals in a short space of time.
▪ The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time.
at short notice
▪ Both players pulled out of the competition yesterday at short notice.
▪ Occasionally, tours may have to be cancelled at short notice.
▪ One of the players dropped out at short notice.
▪ He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director, Bill Naysmith.
▪ Many laboratories have cooperated at short notice and are analysing large numbers of samples.
▪ Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice, so you have to be flexible.
▪ Occasionally tours may be cancelled at short notice owing to circumstances beyond our control.
▪ The landlord could also terminate the arrangements at short notice.
▪ There is an aversion to holding meetings at short notice with a diminished complement.
▪ These alternatives will not always be available at short notice but it might be possible to plan for them.
▪ Working conditions may not be up to much, and as a casual employee you can be fired at short notice.
bring sb up short/with a start
cut sb short
▪ I tried to explain but she cut me short.
▪ I was halfway through my explanation when Walter cut me short.
cut sth short
▪ His death at the age of 38 cut short a brilliant career.
▪ The ten-day mission was cut short when one of the shuttle's navigation devices failed.
draw the short straw
▪ I'm only here because I drew the short straw.
▪ Rose had drawn the short straw, and was thus forced to seek Lord Westbourne clasping the Romanov dagger.
fall short of sth
▪ The results fell far short of our expectations.
▪ Anything less than this is a measure of the extent to which the research falls short of scientific standards.
▪ By 1951 the Labour government had built 900,000 houses, falling short of its target of 240,000 dwellings a year.
▪ Even in the best of years, Journal news coverage inevitably falls short of perfection.
▪ On the other hand, if the firm falls short of covering its fixed costs, a loss will be incurred.
▪ Reality has a way of falling short of the ideal.
▪ The results fell short of eight analysts' forecasts of profit between 130 million and 127 million pounds.
▪ The trainers suggest that, as guards, they fell short of expectations.
flexible/short-time etc working
▪ An outside problem can sometimes be helped by, say, more flexible working hours and so be resolved at management level.
▪ Earnings might vary because of piece-work, overtime or short-time working.
▪ Flexible Hours Question: Has consideration been given to the introduction of flexible working hours?
▪ Meanwhile, solicitors were last week urged to consider flexible working for staff in line with the government's family friendly policies.
▪ Recruitment procedures focus on individual skills and potential for flexible working.
▪ Through grants to local authorities, we are financing schemes to introduce more flexible working practices - such as job sharing.
▪ Vauxhall bosses admit that the threat of short-time working at Ellesmere Port still remains a possibility.
▪ Wage freezes have been brought in across most of the company and some short-time working introduced.
in the long/short/medium term
in the short run
▪ Although this is the socially efficient output in the short run it is not efficient in the long run.
▪ He predicted more volatile dealings in the short run.
▪ However, in the short run, numerous factors may operate to cause changes in supply.
▪ It showed the company that Orrick was willing to make a commitment to them by losing some money in the short run.
▪ Of course, IRAs cost the Treasury in the short run.
▪ The problem worsens with the relentless financial pressures for immediate performance in the short run.
▪ The recipients did not, and in the short run simply could not, spend the majority of their extra revenue.
▪ This could follow if the capital goods producing industries faced capacity constraints in their attempt to raise output in the short run.
life's too short
make short/light work of sth
▪ But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home.
▪ Carmen would have made short work of Michael too.
▪ Fourth placed Guisborough made short work of the opposition at Saltburn.
▪ Guernsey made short work of the opposition when they won the event on home soil in 1990.
▪ It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
▪ It made short work of our Windows performance tests, WinTach, clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3.
▪ The second game we pull away early and make short work of it.
▪ Willie Thorne made light work of the promising Nottinghamshire youngster, Anthony Hamilton, as he eased into the last 16.
sell sb/sth short
▪ Don't sell this guy short - there's more to him than just good looks.
stop short of (doing) sth
▪ Shepherd stopped short of calling him a liar.
▪ Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.
▪ Eric Gray charged back up the court before stopping short of the center line.
▪ Even if it stops short of this extreme, retroactive cost justification is largely ineffective.
▪ He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.
▪ I know people who would maim and yet stop short of murder.
▪ In fact, no general pattern is discernible, except that almost all stop short of full accountability to Parliament.
▪ Yet the argument against Ashdown's triumphalism has to stop short of encouraging the same fatal hubris among Labour politicians.
the long and (the) short of it
▪ The long and short of it is that I had too much to drink and said something I shouldn't have.
▪ There you are, the long and the short of it.
to cut a long story short
▪ I was a waitress in a bar and he was one of my customers, and that, to cut a long story short, is how we met.
to cut a long story short
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There must be a short in the system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He jerked down his shorts, and sat with legs spread on the edge of a slope-backed chair.
▪ He smiled, taking in Willie's crumpled grey shorts and jersey.
▪ He was pale; the portion of his legs between his socks and shorts was white.
▪ I sat on the rocky slope above Gay Acres, not wanting to stain my white shorts on the grass.
▪ Joe explained that oversized jeans were necessary to showcase wildly patterned boxer shorts.
▪ The odd thing is that it isn't the big chaps in shorts who are under fire.
IV.verbPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(since sb was) in short pants
a short fuse
▪ And you don't fool with those because things are on a shorter fuse in Beirut.
▪ Every nerve smouldered on a short fuse.
▪ She was standing there crammed full of enthusiasm and energy like a bomb on a short fuse.
▪ Tom's a chap with a temper on a short fuse anyway.
▪ Wright has a short fuse, and without the goals going in his situation is worsening.
▪ You may find your temper on a short fuse when confronting your child or teenager for the umpteenth time.
a short space of time
▪ I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time.
▪ In old age several major losses may occur within a short space of time.
▪ In such a short space of time, he had plunged from the pinnacle of success to the depths of defeat.
▪ Just how much things can change in a short space of time.
▪ Still, he had been knocked out twice in a short space of time and would appreciate some rest.
▪ That was an extraordinarily fine achievement in such a short space of time.
▪ The problem is getting the material under control in order to reach ambitious learning goals in a short space of time.
▪ The problem was more one of having to absorb a vast amount of information in a short space of time.
at short notice
▪ Both players pulled out of the competition yesterday at short notice.
▪ Occasionally, tours may have to be cancelled at short notice.
▪ One of the players dropped out at short notice.
▪ He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director, Bill Naysmith.
▪ Many laboratories have cooperated at short notice and are analysing large numbers of samples.
▪ Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice, so you have to be flexible.
▪ Occasionally tours may be cancelled at short notice owing to circumstances beyond our control.
▪ The landlord could also terminate the arrangements at short notice.
▪ There is an aversion to holding meetings at short notice with a diminished complement.
▪ These alternatives will not always be available at short notice but it might be possible to plan for them.
▪ Working conditions may not be up to much, and as a casual employee you can be fired at short notice.
flexible/short-time etc working
▪ An outside problem can sometimes be helped by, say, more flexible working hours and so be resolved at management level.
▪ Earnings might vary because of piece-work, overtime or short-time working.
▪ Flexible Hours Question: Has consideration been given to the introduction of flexible working hours?
▪ Meanwhile, solicitors were last week urged to consider flexible working for staff in line with the government's family friendly policies.
▪ Recruitment procedures focus on individual skills and potential for flexible working.
▪ Through grants to local authorities, we are financing schemes to introduce more flexible working practices - such as job sharing.
▪ Vauxhall bosses admit that the threat of short-time working at Ellesmere Port still remains a possibility.
▪ Wage freezes have been brought in across most of the company and some short-time working introduced.
in the long/short/medium term
in the short run
▪ Although this is the socially efficient output in the short run it is not efficient in the long run.
▪ He predicted more volatile dealings in the short run.
▪ However, in the short run, numerous factors may operate to cause changes in supply.
▪ It showed the company that Orrick was willing to make a commitment to them by losing some money in the short run.
▪ Of course, IRAs cost the Treasury in the short run.
▪ The problem worsens with the relentless financial pressures for immediate performance in the short run.
▪ The recipients did not, and in the short run simply could not, spend the majority of their extra revenue.
▪ This could follow if the capital goods producing industries faced capacity constraints in their attempt to raise output in the short run.
life's too short
long-stemmed/short-stemmed etc
make short/light work of sth
▪ But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home.
▪ Carmen would have made short work of Michael too.
▪ Fourth placed Guisborough made short work of the opposition at Saltburn.
▪ Guernsey made short work of the opposition when they won the event on home soil in 1990.
▪ It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
▪ It made short work of our Windows performance tests, WinTach, clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3.
▪ The second game we pull away early and make short work of it.
▪ Willie Thorne made light work of the promising Nottinghamshire youngster, Anthony Hamilton, as he eased into the last 16.
the long and (the) short of it
▪ The long and short of it is that I had too much to drink and said something I shouldn't have.
▪ There you are, the long and the short of it.
to cut a long story short
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Customers were being shorted about two ounces per glass of beer.
▪ The fire was caused by a toaster that shorted out.