bring up sharply

bring someone up sharply

and bring someone up short

to surprise or shock someone; to make someone face something unpleasant, suddenly. The slap in the face brought me up sharply. The loud bang brought me up short.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ruuben	ROO:-ben	Finnish
Crescencia	-	Spanish
Tanja	TAHN-yah (German, Finnish)	German, Finnish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Haggith	-	Biblical
Evalyn	-	English
ĄŽUolas	-	Lithuanian