go short

go short (third-person singular simple present goes short, present participle going short, simple past went short, past participle gone short)

1. (Britain) (intransitive, or transitive with of) To have an insufficient amount (of).

   My parents were very poor, and we often went short of food.

2. (finance) To sell a financial product, such as a share, that one does not presently own, as in the hope of buying it more cheaply later for delivery, so as to profit from a fall in price; cf. go long.

• “go short of something” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “go short of something” (US) / “go short of something” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “go short” in the Collins English Dictionary