{"id":22485,"date":"2026-06-21T18:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/fall-short-of-in-everyday-english\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:11:38","slug":"fall-short-of-in-everyday-english","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/fall-short-of-in-everyday-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall short of in Everyday English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What does the expression <strong>Fall short of<\/strong> mean?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>very healthy and strong<\/li>\n<li>to stop working or fail to function<\/li>\n<li>to fail to reach a standard or amount<\/li>\n<li>to think of or produce an idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3210],"subject":[3116],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-22485","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-contextual-meaning","subject-idioms-phrases","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>Fall short of<\/strong> means <strong>to fail to reach a standard or amount<\/strong>. It is the correct answer because this expression is used figuratively to describe not being enough for what is expected.<\/p><p>Examples:<\/p><ul><li>The answer <strong>fell short of<\/strong> the teacher's expectation.<\/li><li>Our funds <strong>fell short of<\/strong> the required amount.<\/li><li>His performance <strong>fell short of<\/strong> his usual level.<\/li><\/ul>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"very healthy and strong"},{"right":"no","answer":"to stop working or fail to function"},{"right":"yes","answer":"to fail to reach a standard or amount"},{"right":"no","answer":"to think of or produce an idea"}],"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\/22485","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=22485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=22485"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=22485"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=22485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}