Timeline for What is the English verb/phrase/expression for cheating customers with an inaccurate scale?
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| Jul 7, 2017 at 23:18 | comment | added | kayleeFrye_onDeck | Is Imgur available? I added captions: imgur.com/a/4nYJB | imgur.com/a/MMEc4 | |
| Jul 7, 2017 at 23:04 | comment | added | user239460 | @kayleeFrye_onDeck i finally know what that part mean by your explaination, i am so grateful for your help, thank you so much! if he had said 'proof' and 'in real life', it wouldn't be that hard to understand though; i appreciate that, but unfortunately Google isn't available in my country, you seem to be aware of that possibility. | |
| Jul 7, 2017 at 22:58 | comment | added | kayleeFrye_onDeck | Btw, if you have access to Google in your country, here's a benign / unwitting usage: tinyurl.com/ya89gk7p || and this is a malicious usage: tinyurl.com/ya7y95vw | |
| Jul 7, 2017 at 22:51 | comment | added | kayleeFrye_onDeck | Ah. Yorik meant, if you want proof (attestations), you can look for its use in real life (in the wild) by searching for the phrase, "shorted my order." | |
| Jul 7, 2017 at 22:47 | comment | added | user239460 | @kayleeFrye_onDeck thank you so much, i mean the last part of his answer, that part: (For attestations "in the wild" see for example "shorted my order". ) which is what confused me. | |
| Jul 7, 2017 at 22:32 | comment | added | kayleeFrye_onDeck | @user239460, when Yorik says drop-and-go, think a quick and direct action. Drop-and-go has the connotation that you basically do one simple action and move on instead of messing around to set things up. No/Low-maintenance, easy instructions/none needed, that kind of thing. | |
| Jul 7, 2017 at 22:22 | comment | added | kayleeFrye_onDeck | shorted is another way of saying, to short, for example by this link, "tv. to give someone less of something than was agreed upon. "They shorted us on the last order, so we switched suppliers." | idioms.thefreedictionary.com/short | |
| Jul 6, 2017 at 17:14 | comment | added | Yorik | Just google "shorted my order" with the quotes. You will see this used a lot in exactly the way you are asking about. | |
| Jul 6, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | user239460 | sorry, my poor English, but your last part of your answer still confused me a bit. (For attestations "in the wild" see for example "shorted my order") | |
| Jul 6, 2017 at 16:57 | comment | added | Yorik | I just did, reread the last comment with "it means that you can use ... " | |
| Jul 6, 2017 at 16:41 | comment | added | user239460 | but you got to tell me what that mean? i am not a native speaker. | |
| Jul 6, 2017 at 16:27 | comment | added | Yorik | You can use it in your sentence without rewriting or rearranging it (as in my example) | |
| Jul 6, 2017 at 16:23 | comment | added | user239460 | thanks, what does drop-and-go and the last part of your answer mean? | |
| Jul 6, 2017 at 16:10 | history | answered | Yorik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |