pull, bring, etc. sb up short

pull, bring, etc. sb up ˈshortto make sb suddenly stop what they are doing使某人突然停止I was brought up short by a terrible thought.一个可怕的念头闪过，我一下子愣住了。

• parotid gland
• heavy handed
• positron emission
• without (any) loss of time
• come up to sth / sb
• podgy
• preadamic
• deontological ethics
• crenation
• dramamines
• animations
• complexionally
• balance of mind
• leap seconds
• Pholidota
• bedclothes
• force an entrance
• quick-break switch
• tyrocidins
• formularizing
• semibarbarous
• put emphasis on
• distorter
• campagnes
• coldhearted
• zooids
• Dun and Bradstreet
• blinkiest
• baker's dozen
• pronounced
• kindergartener
• tidal power generation
• eschars
• turn purple with rage
• heavy oil
• put on the skid
• Tortricoidea
• draw one's quill against something
• preseasons
• honest injun
• arachidonic acids
• tightened
• marsipobranch
• compatibles
• monadic operations
• shaggy-dog story
• oldfangledness
• learn something the hard way
• chug
• external upset casing
• lovingly
• stammerers
• decelerates
• adaptation energy
• imbricatings
• reimposing
• -mony
• greenmailers
• grille
• By the Lord Harry!
• guilts
• Skylab effect
• lamppost
• chaeta
• encephalolith
• sword
• almost
• inconvertibleness
• coalbins
• virions
• a thick skin
• Land of the Rising sun
• would just as soon
• cacoethics
• Boat the oars!
• overstruck
• designate by
• flip-flopped
• mother wit
• in pale
• in the wind’s eye
• secretory vesicle
• medicaster
• Confed
• electric fans
• acid rains
• preciouses
• flash welding
• controlled atmosphere
• sunspots
• seiners
• open-side planer
• cascade liquefication
• type hierarchy
• pass-through
• plasmid
• footracing
• cyclone cellars
• have second thoughts
• dog pounds