short-change (one)
short-change (one)
To cheat someone out of the amount they had expected or were promised. Fast-food restaurants always short-change you on the soft drinks by filling the cups with ice. I feel like he short-changed the audience by finishing the concert after less than an hour.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- be under the pump
- clip
- under the pump
- be as honest as the day is long
- do (someone) down
- from there to here
- honest as the day is long