be caught short उदाहरण वाक्य

In the Northeast, no one drags their feet about filling up because it would be foolish to be caught short at the beginning of winter.
They also worry about whether the marketplace will move quickly enough to avert power shortages, or whether other states will, like California, be caught short.
Or will your nation be caught short on the day, sometime soon, when freedom of the press is no longer an ideal but unstoppable and inevitable?
Yet because the debt is due in pesos, it is doubtful that the government would be caught short even if the bonds were not rolled over.
Although it has rained more than a foot in many areas of the state since Friday, people continued to be caught short by the rising waters.

The Islanders recalled Godard from the minors before the game, an indiaction that they didn't want to be caught short-handed should the contest turn overly physical.
Yes, take a few extra dollars out of an ATM machine so as not to be caught short of cash at the end of the year.
Many participants expect palladium to reach as high as $ 1, 000 per ounce short-term, as industrial users don't want to be caught short of physical material.
Even if the sale goes forward, if the banks withdraw financing then Gazprom could be caught short of funds for the opening bid of $ 8.6 billion.
"They don't want to be caught short, " said Jim Newman, executive director of Securities Class Action Services in New York, referring to shareholders'concerns about settling too soon.