"come up short" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comes up short",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coming up short",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "came up short",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "come up short",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "come<,,came,come> up short"
      },
      "expansion": "come up short (third-person singular simple present comes up short, present participle coming up short, simple past came up short, past participle come up short)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They kept coming up short every time they closed out the register.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The register kept coming up short every time they closed it out.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "She fished in her purse for more quarters but came up short.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 April 5, “Network News: Conservatives accused of \"rewarding Avanti's failure\"”, in RAIL, number 980, page 6:",
          "text": "\"Avanti has never employed enough drivers to deliver the services it has promised. That is why, every day this year, the company has come up short.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of fall short"
      ],
      "id": "en-come_up_short-en-verb-RsFskY6Y",
      "links": [
        [
          "fall short",
          "fall short#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "come up roses"
        },
        {
          "word": "come up snake eyes"
        },
        {
          "english": "an outcome or lesson",
          "word": "come away with"
        },
        {
          "word": "come out ahead"
        },
        {
          "word": "come up with"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "fall short"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "come up short"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comes up short",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coming up short",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "came up short",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "come up short",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "come<,,came,come> up short"
      },
      "expansion": "come up short (third-person singular simple present comes up short, present participle coming up short, simple past came up short, past participle come up short)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "come up roses"
    },
    {
      "word": "come up snake eyes"
    },
    {
      "english": "an outcome or lesson",
      "word": "come away with"
    },
    {
      "word": "come out ahead"
    },
    {
      "word": "come up with"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They kept coming up short every time they closed out the register.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The register kept coming up short every time they closed it out.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "She fished in her purse for more quarters but came up short.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 April 5, “Network News: Conservatives accused of \"rewarding Avanti's failure\"”, in RAIL, number 980, page 6:",
          "text": "\"Avanti has never employed enough drivers to deliver the services it has promised. That is why, every day this year, the company has come up short.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of fall short"
      ],
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        [
          "fall short",
          "fall short#English"
        ]
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          "word": "fall short"
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  ],
  "word": "come up short"
}