in short supply
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English
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- scarce, or difficult to find, or buy.
- 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.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “in short supply”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.