caught short

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caught short - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "caught short":
     ad-lib, astonished, caught napping, caught off balance,
     extemporaneous, extemporized, haphazard, hasty, impromptu,
     improvised, makeshift, precipitate, rough-and-ready, snap,
     struck with surprise, surprised, taken aback, taken by surprise,
     taken unawares, tripped up, unarranged, unbegun, unconcocted,
     uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, unhatched, unmade,
     unmanufactured, unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared,
     unprimed, unready, unstudied