Remember: We see something static, unmoving. We also see the things around us, perhaps without paying much attention to them. We look at something in order to pay more attention to its appearance. We watch something when we want to know what happens (so therefore we generally watch something that is moving or that requires our attention). We use look when we want to direct someone's attention to something.)

Such penalties result in a player being sent to an isolated area called the penalty box, after which the offender's team must operate a player short.

When "short" comes after a noun, it means that there is not a great enough number of the noun as there usually is, or than is necessary. In your sentence about a game, perhaps there are normally 11 members of a team. The penalized team would be playing with one player short, that is, with 10 players instead of l1.

Some other examples would be:

"¢ Uh, oh. I'm 5 cents short. I need $1.00 to get on the bus, but I have only ninety-five cents. "¢ Candidate Brown was just 30 votes short of winning the election. His opponent won the election. His opponent had 2,660 but Brown had 2,631. "¢ May I please borrow an egg? I need three eggs to make the cake, but I'm one egg short. _______

"Shortly" as an adverb is similar to "soon," as in:

Please take your seats. The concert will begin shortly. The baby was born shortly after the new millennium began.

Or, "shortly" is used with "speak" or "say" or "answer" to indicate a curt or impatient manner:

She didn't want to be bothered and answered my question very shortly. When Bob spoke shortly to his son, the little boy began to cry.

from the corner of your eye also out the corner of your eye not seen completely, only briefly noticed From the corner of his eye he thought he saw a large dog, but it was actually a coyote.

Boils down to means to reduce something to its essentials/to reveal the most important part or factor.

Down to means the responsibility or fault of.

Due to means caused by.

Owing to means because of.

Put down to means attribute to.

Up to means dependent or incumbent upon.

run a tight ship: to control a business or other organization firmly and effectively