come up short
German translation: schafft es nicht; enttäuscht
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| 11:10 Apr 26, 2020 |
| English to German translations [PRO] Sports / Fitness / Recreation / Basketball | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Johanna Timm, PhD Canada Local time: 00:00 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | verwerfen / keinen Korb erzielen |
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| 3 +1 | schafft es nicht; enttäuscht |
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6 hrs confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1verwerfen / keinen Korb erzielen Explanation: come up short - to fail to win or achieve something We’ve been to the state tournament four times, but we’ve come up short every time. - https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/come-up-short come up short - 2) Fall short of a goal to fall short zu kurz greifen to fall short zu niedrig liegen - https://www.dict.cc/?s=fall short come up short (hier): verwerfen Basketball Spielbericht: die anschließende Offensive verwirft aber Güttl. - http://www.basketswans.at/news/detail/spielbericht-traiskirc... Basketball - versucht einen Korb zu erzielen, um das eigene Punktekonto zu erhöhen. https://www.vibss.de/fileadmin/Medienablage/Sportpraxis/PH_B... |
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7 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1schafft es nicht; enttäuscht Explanation: Ohne Genaueres über dieses spezielle Spiel zu wissen, d.h. ob MJ an dieser Stelle einen Korb geworfen hat oder nicht, würde ich es vager formulieren, etwa im Sinn von: to fail to meet expectations, to fall short of a goal or aspiration- not to fail entirely, but to disappoint. https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/come-up-short.22530/ |
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