stop short of doing sth

stop short of doing sth to almost do something but then decide not to do it将要做某事时突然罢手，险些做某事:•They accused the President of incompetence, but stopped short of calling for his resignation.他们指责总统无能，差点要求他辞职。

• arginaemia
• facsimilists
• Macon
• transporters
• glass snakes
• Opcode
• tip an elbow
• tilt at sb / sth
• excipuliform
• Zoroastrian
• learys
• queen's metal
• osteitis deformanss
• historicization
• resurveys
• coded
• waterskins
• unfriendlier
• food allergies
• warmhearted
• shooting
• spermatic fluid
• lachrymatory
• unfocused
• antimilitarisms
• fruitfully
• kasolite
• provost marshal
• pherentasin
• quickstep
• transferred-electron amplifier
• torrs
• Medici
• emulation
• order books
• a quite go
• imperences
• methylene blues
• foliages
• Maryolatrous
• seric-
• replanted
• install yourself in / at etc
• reciprocating saw
• compiler language
• easels
• skeleton of the heart
• Yigdal
• truth to nature(或life)
• end for end
• anecdotical
• oenophilic
• Ache
• Evert, Chris
• chenopods
• group-specific antigen
• submittal
• orthodromes
• blottesques
• priesthoods
• fueled
• badger skunks
• Platonic year
• paralogisms
• nasal index
• waste bank
• crunchies
• acetylated
• antisepses
• fit as a fiddle
• iron-deficiency anemia
• altocumulus
• alterns
• brass hat
• draw bead
• Netta
• a sort of sth
• airborne profile recorder
• hardbacked
• stop band
• achromatically
• carnassial
• lay aboard
• get the weather gauge on
• wrought-iron
• float-and-sink analysis
• hurdy-gurdist
• do sth of your own free will
• to lie at (或 on,upon) the lurch
• behaviour therapy
• Nalline
• patentor
• rechargeable battery
• cretaceous
• vespiary
• termite
• jump resonance
• absconder
• ground-based
• hoagy