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Meanings of gets short in English

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Usage of gets short in English
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Curiosity is one of those personality traits that gets short scientific shrift.
Wired
2
When money gets short, videogames get dropped off the shopping list.
Wired
3
I can't do much work now, my breath gets short.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
4
The minimum wage gets short mention, but is not considered in relation to the Phillipscurve.
Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy
5
He gets short, and then he-justpawns it.
Phineas Redux
6
Recollection gets short when age comes on, and I would not care for swearing to that.
Second Shetland Truck System Report
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So the act of belaying gets short shrift.
Climbing Magazine
8
So Bancroft gets short-changed because he's a Meth.
Altered carbon
9
Even the devil gets short shrift in parapsychology.
Ghosts
10
But it gets short shrift in media debates conducted in terms of competition, profitability and market forces.
The Irish Times
11
As the green feed gets short in the first lot the hens are let into lot No.
The Dollar Hen
12
I know how a man gets short.
A Farewell to Arms
13
The Negro without money to pay his fine or friends from whom he can borrow gets short shrift.
In the Land of Jim Crow
14
The detected profiteer, the genuine profiteer who profiteers on any considerable scale, gets short shrift; he is shot.
Wired
15
Strangely, even this thread gets short shrift from the screenplay, which never bothers to tell us how she died.
Reuters
16
Fashion gets short shrift -jewellery, mostly brooches of everything from lobsters to bees, is the only wearable element of the collection.
The Guardian
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