in short supply
English
Prepositional phrase
- 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.
References
- “in short supply”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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