caught short

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