Short of and Thin

Short of

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Thin and short of are semantically related. in lacking topic. In some cases you can use "Thin" instead an adjective phrase "Short of".

Thin

Thin adjective - Having a noticeably small amount of body fat.

Short of and thin are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Short of" instead an adjective "Thin".

Nearby Words: thinned, thinly, thinness, thinning

Both terms in one sentence

  • Creator / Aaron Sorkin Rousseau Was Right Self-Deprecation: In his appearance on 30 Rock which, given his famously thin-skinned reputation, is nothing short of astonishing.
  • Tier-3 Battlecruisers are practically designed around this trope: nothing short of a full-fledged capital ship can mount more firepower (eight battleship-class guns, matching the most powerful sub-capital battleships in the game), but their defenses are paper-thin.
  • Pyrrhic Victory Alternatively, destroy a large amount of a enemy but fall just short of actually knocking him out of the game — then watch him turn in a set of Risk Cards, and come back at your forces which are now spread thin at one-army per territory.
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