pull / bring sb up short

pull / bring sb up short to surprise or shock someone so that they stop what they are doing or saying to think for a moment让某人怔了一下，使某人愣了一愣:•The question brought her up short, but after a moment's hesitation, she answered it.这个问题使她愣了一愣，但她犹豫了一下后还是回答了。

• uncos
• hemorrhagic measles
• swamp milkweeds
• nursing bottles
• clubbings
• chutneys
• goldenrod paper
• heel kick
• sulphate process
• hornitos
• keep/stay shtum
• cotton balls
• electrocauterization
• satin bowerbirds
• subculturings
• archetypal
• wheel spats
• ring-a-lievo
• hydraulic
• air art
• cusecs
• last ditch
• relented
• domings
• cerebrospinal
• pastureland
• talk round(或 around)
• manipulated variable
• argoliss
• clock cycle
• an Academy Award job
• atlantas
• notam
• radio-frequency spectrums
• humdinger
• turboprops
• irreverential
• troubledly
• necktie
• bestirred
• tiro
• a guilt trip
• follow in one's footsteps
• change wheel
• fire hydrant
• governings
• hydrogenization
• uvulae
• wine of good body
• spiritualist
• azaserine
• corneite
• polluter
• a matter of opinion
• deadly embraces
• archpriestship
• agammaglobulinemias
• laser memory
• astroturfing
• ambler
• die laughing
• orated
• matrix mechanics
• dispeoples
• differential fault
• the wheels of state
• hurry through
• be shipwrecked
• wating
• inequity
• preferred stocks
• corvina
• absence desprit
• cataclasm
• proterandry
• Germanness
• submiss
• rhythm method
• semaphoring
• off （或wide of） the mark
• run away/off (together)
• procuracy
• stickball
• Zapus
• random-access discrete address
• not let sb out of your sight
• strike sth ↔down
• carboxamides
• horrific
• acarian
• uranium hexafluoride
• round file
• Bonington, Richard Parkes
• come unstuck
• give someone credit for
• misadvise
• seq
• G-film
• dedder
• damask