"short" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He'd drawn the short straw with the sort of small van an odd job man would use.
- The next squad had made it through ten men without one drawing the short straw.
- One passenger too many on the big ship, and you've drawn the short straw.
- I had a hunch you might draw the short straw.
- "Every time I'm left in the office on my own, you appear to have drawn the short straw as well."
- Look closely enough and you'll see that everyone has a short straw or two in their lives.
- He bet she was "chosen" by having pulled a short straw.
- The man who'd drawn the short straw looked at his little brother.
- With the short straw, the young man had become their weakness.
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