fall short

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

fall short idiom
to fail to reach an amount or standard that was expected or hoped for, causing disappointment
• August car sales fell short of the industry's expectations.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Failing and doing badly ↑Scarce, inadequate and not enough ↑Lacking things
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