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What is a short end of the stick?

What is a short end of the stick? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) A situation, opportunity, or outcome which is less favorable than situations, opportunities, or outcomes experienced by or available to others.
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Somehow, in our society, know-it-alls always get the short end of the stick.
So if you ignore it, you end up, you know, getting the short end of the stick.
As a side note, I have no doubt that many conservative students get the short end of the stick from their uniformly leftist profs.
We would have really had a melee that day and I am sure I would have been on the short end of the stick with a man like Luc Lavoie.
Canada always seems to get the short end of the stick when it comes down to trade issues.
And it found, as Ron just said, that it's on the short end of the stick now.

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