in short supply - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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Prepositional phrase

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in short supply

1. Scarce, or difficult to find, or purchase.
   • 2021 November 3, Christian Wolmar, “A lot of words... but very little in the way of action”, in RAIL, number 943, page 45:
     But that would require imagination - something in short supply in the Treasury.
   • 2025 March 24, David Hytner, “Reece James bends it like Beckham to help England break down Latvia”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
     The first half was attritional, too congested for England’s liking. Tuchel has talked about bringing Premier League levels of intensity but that was in short supply.

• deficient

• infrequent

• poor

• rare

• scant

• scanty

• scarce

• scarcity

• thin

• thin on the ground

• uncommon

• wanting

• “in short supply”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.