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bring someone up short
idiom
to make someone suddenly stop doing something or talking, usually because they are surprised: （因惊讶）使…突然停止，使…愣住
Her rudeness brought me up short.她的粗鲁使我一下子愣住了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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abandon
abandonment
all good things (must) come to an endidiom
and have done with itidiom
be over the humpidiom
cure
halt
hang
jack something in
kill something stone-deadidiom
knock
lay
lid
lift
snap
stamp on something
stamp something out
stanch
staunch
stem
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