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off guard
Idioms and Phrases
Also, off one's guard . Not watchful, easily surprised. It is often put as catch (or be caught) off guard , meaning 鈥渢ake (or be taken) by surprise.鈥 For example, The securities analyst was caught off guard by that financial report , or With any luck the boss will be off guard when I come in late . [Late 1600s] The antonym, on guard or on one's guard , meaning 鈥渨atchful or prepared, especially to defend oneself,鈥 was first recorded in 1577. For example, In this crowd we must be on guard against pickpockets , or I'm always on my guard when I'm asked how I voted .Example Sentences
In March, the 43-year-old Hayward resident was caught off guard when he learned his employer, payment company Square, was eliminating his role as a development and operations engineer because of a reorganization.
As Bront毛 confronts Joe at gunpoint in the middle of a steamy encounter, he is caught off guard, literally with his pants down.
At the time, the US was considered to have been caught off guard by their rival's technological achievement.
"The fact a global superpower such as the US was paying attention to us at all caught us off guard."
But the weight of the tragedy 鈥 and the bizarre juxtapositions of life in the midst of it 鈥 often catches him off guard.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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