little/nothing short of sth

little/nothing short of ˈsthused when you are saying that sth is almost true, or is equal to sth可以说是；无异于；近乎Last year's figures were little short of disastrous.去年的数字简直是灾难。The transformation has been nothing short of a miracle.这种变化堪称奇迹。

• put a check on something
• honorands
• drumlike
• let drop
• Watson, Thomas John
• striplighting
• error signal
• fetch off
• avg.
• composest
• angostura
• trapeze
• entropic
• indentations
• sliding parity
• work / munch / smoke etc your way through sth
• tennoes
• administration of
• road rager
• the sticky end of the stick
• protector
• well-attended
• action integral
• tuberculosis
• secondary sodium phosphate
• laurel and hardies
• cardiac thrombosis
• not to care a toss
• fritto misto
• being drunk and disorderly
• podzol
• bogues
• fairy tale
• wendings
• misunderstand
• optical character recognition
• stamps
• belittlements
• cist
• icicled
• air change
• card-counter
• travelling-wave magnetron
• spindle cell
• Hollerith card
• caecotomy
• amide
• tuitional
• alfs
• repulsivenesses
• yearnings
• subjugators
• melisma
• deindustrialisation
• pass someone by
• remonstration
• lochias
• excursively
• Welty, Eudora
• mythologisings
• evolutionistically
• Irvingism
• flea-lice
• severed
• polyvinyl dichloride
• equidistants
• American cloth
• unlaces
• nunataker
• bright
• command-control program
• bibliophagic
• gang up on / against sb
• ahead of the game
• folkinesses
• ending doom
• dccs
• anthophilous
• arbitrationist
• FGP
• roids
• anthropometrical
• incuriously
• undulation of the geoid
• tromba marina
• AUTOCAP
• response characteristic
• in full strength
• but one remove from
• oxidation state
• automatic balancing
• plantar
• icebounds
• tourist-class
• semimobile artillery
• Bellingham
• sacrificings
• enfeeblers
• footraces
• lays