fall short
Verb
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Verb
fall short
- (idiomatic) to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 245c.
- But if being is not a whole through being affected by that affection, and there is such a thing as the whole itself, if follows that being falls short of itself.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 245c.
- Russian: быть
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