bring up short
Example Sentences
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But when the main body came up, and the whole stream was full of drifting logs, some clumsy tree trunk going down broadside first would bring up short against the rock.
From The Young Woodsman Life in the Forests of Canada by Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald)
That colt of Captain Bowen’s is likely to take it into her head to bring up short at any minute.
From Far Past the Frontier by Fry, W. H.
