{"id":22387,"date":"2026-06-21T18:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/be-short-of-context-clue-quiz\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:07:59","slug":"be-short-of-context-clue-quiz","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/be-short-of-context-clue-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Be short of Context Clue Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which answer shows the correct meaning of <strong>Be short of<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>to have too much<\/li>\n<li>to be very tall<\/li>\n<li>to not have enough<\/li>\n<li>to finish early<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3210],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[2495],"class_list":["post-22387","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-contextual-meaning","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-grade-7"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>Be short of<\/strong> means to not have enough. This answer is correct because the expression is used with this meaning in real communication, not always by its literal words.<\/p><p>Examples: We are <strong>short of<\/strong> paper for the project. The team was <strong>short of<\/strong> players.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"to have too much"},{"right":"no","answer":"to be very tall"},{"right":"yes","answer":"to not have enough"},{"right":"no","answer":"to finish early"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":3116,"title":"Idioms &amp; Phrases","slug":"idioms-phrases"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3210,"title":"Contextual Meaning","slug":"contextual-meaning"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/22387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22387"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22387"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}