shy of

shy of something

having less of something than is needed or expected The bill was four votes shy of a majority. He was a large man, just shy of six feet tall.

Related vocabulary: short of something

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Motya	-	Russian
Doran	-	Irish
&Aelig;Lred	-	Anglo-Saxon
Henrik	HEN-rik (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Armenian
Quentin	['kwentin]
Esen	-	Turkish