Definition of 'caught short'
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You can't afford to be caught short when you're thousands of miles away. YELLOW BIRD (2003)And then if you get caught short along the way---- ' Coleridge frowned. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS (2003)Amy came behind them, caught short in miserable confusion. THE WHITE DOVE (2003)
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Used Rarely. caught short is in the lower 50% of commonly used words in the Collins dictionary
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