"Be caught short" nghĩa là gì?

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“Be caught short” -> nghĩa là đột nhiên cảm thấy cần phải đi vệ sinh (thông tục).

Ví dụ.

Official police figures obtained by the Glasgow Times show people were caught short on 18,129 occasions with the city centre hardest hit by the offence. Baillieston saw the fewest reports to cops for public urination (đi tiểu).

"It'll seem harder than it appears at the front and then it will scale much faster than we think on the back end of it," he said of increasing the number of unmanned vehicles. "We don't want to be caught short still thinking about it when somebody else is scaling it."

She clashed frequently with the county’s transportation (vận tải) union, as the Gimenez administration (chính quyền) outsourced some bus routes to private operators and pursued (theo đuổi) a privatized system in the monorail proposal. The tensions hit a peak at the start of the coronavirus emergency when bus operators were rationed (phân bổ) to a single Clorox wipe per shift when the county was caught short on protective and sanitizing supplies.