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caught short

adj

Etymology

Compare French prendre de court.

Definitions

  1. Needing to use the toilet at a point where no toilet facilities are available.

    • Some clever person came up with the apt name of little John (or big John for the optimist) for a suitably shaped container for those who were caught short.

  2. unprepared or without enough of something when it is needed

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for caught short. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA