Read full poem →Gives your life's hour-glass a shake when the thin sand doubts
Whether to run on or stop short, and guarantees
Age is not all made of stark sloth and arrant ease.
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To come to a sudden and unexpected stop, particularly while speaking or driving a vehicle.
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Poetry examples for “stop short”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know.
No rattling wheels stop short before these gates;
No powder'd pert proficient in the art