end up with the short end of the stick Idiom

end up with the short end of the stick

Idiom(s): get the short end of the stick AND end up with the short end of the stick

Theme: FAIRNESS - LACKING

to end up with less (than someone else); to end up cheated or deceived.
• Why do I always get the short end of the stick? I want my fair share!
• She's unhappy because she has the short end of the stick again.
• I hate to end up with the short end of the stick.

the abbreviate end of the stick

An diff aftereffect of a accord that after-effects in a disadvantage or burden. You accept to break calm during business negotiations or abroad you may end up accepting the abbreviate end of the stick. I feel like I got the abbreviate end of the stick on this project, with the bulk of added time and accomplishment I'll accept to put into it.Learn more: end, of, short, stick

*short end of the stick

Fig. the abate or beneath adorable part, rank, task, or amount. (*Typically: get ~; accept ~; accord addition ~; end up with ~.) Why do I consistently get the abbreviate end of the stick? I appetite my fair share! She's black because she has the abbreviate end of the stick again.Learn more: end, of, short, stick

short end of the stick, to get/have the

To lose out; to get beneath than one is advantaged to. Exactly what affectionate of stick is actuality referred to is no best known, but possibly it is one acclimated in angry or in a tug-of-war, in which the being captivation the best end has the advantage. “He accepting gotten (as we say) the bigger end of the staffs, did wrest our wills at his pleasure,” wrote Thomas Jackson in 1626 (Commentaries aloft the Apostles Creed). Around the about-face of the twentieth aeon in America, “the abbreviate end” of annihilation came to beggarly the inferior part, and anon this was accumulated with “stick” to crop the accepted cliché. Learn added wrong end of the stick.Learn more: end, get, have, of, short

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end up with the short end of the stick Idiom