come short of something—(also: fall short of something ) be insufficient or inadequate to attain the results intended:
- The box-office receipts came short of the manager’s expectations.
go short of something—deprive oneself of smth.; not have enough of smth.:
- I don’t want you to go short of money in order to lend me what I need.
Note: Neither expression correlates in meaning with the phrase run short of something—use up almost all of smth.:
- The hijacked plane was allowed to land at Kandahar airport because the plane was running short of fuel.