"pull up short" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls up short",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling up short",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled up short",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled up short",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "pull up short"
      },
      "expansion": "pull up short (third-person singular simple present pulls up short, present participle pulling up short, simple past and past participle pulled up short)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Psychology",
          "orig": "en:Psychology",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Mary Jo Hinsdale, Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education, page 99",
          "text": "Deborah Kerdeman asks us to prepare for the occasions on which we will be “pulled up short.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be overwhelmed or dumbfounded by events."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_up_short-en-verb-jfwGYT9C",
      "links": [
        [
          "psychology",
          "psychology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, psychology) To be overwhelmed or dumbfounded by events."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull up short"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls up short",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling up short",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled up short",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled up short",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "pull up short"
      },
      "expansion": "pull up short (third-person singular simple present pulls up short, present participle pulling up short, simple past and past participle pulled up short)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Psychology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Mary Jo Hinsdale, Mutuality, Mystery, and Mentorship in Higher Education, page 99",
          "text": "Deborah Kerdeman asks us to prepare for the occasions on which we will be “pulled up short.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be overwhelmed or dumbfounded by events."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "psychology",
          "psychology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, psychology) To be overwhelmed or dumbfounded by events."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull up short"
}