"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 light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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 intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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"
}