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"But this time we came up on the short end."

The school was building such a good program for women that I actually think the boys got the short end.

You never got anything but the short end of the stick.

We played two close games against a good team and came up on the short end.

It's not an easy thing to have a game of this nature and to be on the short end.

Workers see they're getting the short end of the stick.

You think you're getting the short end of the stick?

But the fact is he got the short end of the stick from us.

Our man had come up on the short end of somebody in the last couple days.

We just came up on the short end of things.