in short supply

English

Prepositional phrase

in short supply

1. 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.

Synonyms

• deficient
• infrequent
• poor
• rare
• scant
• scanty
• scarce
• scarcity
• thin
• thin on the ground
• uncommon
• wanting

 

References

• “in short supply”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.