short on (something) (and long on (something else))

having too little of one thing and a lot of another.

The opposing team was short on athleticism.

Her dresses, made of cotton, were short on style and long on wear.

Related vocabulary: long on something and short on something else

• the curtain comes down on
• the curtain comes down on something
• the curtain falls
• the curtain falls on
• the curtain falls on something
• the cut and thrust of
• the cut and thrust of something
• the darkest hour is just before the dawn.
• the day of reckoning
• the dead hand of
• the dead hand of something
• the death knell
• the demon drink
• the devil finds work for idle hands.
• the devil take the hindmost
• the dice are loaded against
• the dice are loaded against someone
• the die is cast
• the dog days
• the done thing
• the dreaded lurgy
• the dust settles
• the early bird catches the worm.
• the earth moved
• the ebb and flow