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caught short
Idioms and Phrases
Found to be lacking something one needs, especially money, as in Can you pay the check? I seem to be caught short . This idiom uses short in the sense of “lacking money,” a usage dating from the early 1500s.Example Sentences
We all get caught short sometimes, and for pregnant women, parents with children and people with certain medical conditions, it can be pretty often.
She set up the popular TikTok account Loos of London, highlighting places for when you're caught short.
If Bass and other leaders want to make up for being clearly caught short, they need to offer more, and clearer, information.
Airlines say they also have staffed up since being caught short when travel began to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring and summer of 2022.
Many developers, spurred by the pandemic to invest money in new self-storage facilities, have been caught short by this drop in demand.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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