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Significats de napping en anglès

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Process of brushing a woven fabric with raising cards, teasels or wire brushes to raise a nap.

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Not prepared or vigilant.

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Examples for "off-guard"
Examples for "off-guard"
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I couldn't say if he was disappointed or just caught completely off-guard.
Act of will
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One long-time resident, Susan Wright, said the blaze had caught everyone off-guard.
News.com.au
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But it caught the scientific community tasked with informing policy makers off-guard.
The Guardian
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It was the assembly of her senior year that threw her off-guard.
Good girls don't
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They smashed into the group, catching them off-guard with their unexpected speed.
The skein of lament
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The advantage always lies in catching the other fellow off his guard.
The Scranton High Chums on the Cinder Path / Or, The Mystery of ...
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It put him right off his guard after he'd disposed of that.
Report for Murder
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The sudden change in his wife's manner threw him off his guard.
After the Storm
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Thus thrown off his guard, he blindly dashed into the wrong channel.
Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land
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For a fraction of a second he was caught off his guard.
Oh, You Tex!
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Stephanie was off her guard for once, in no truly fencing mood.
The Titan
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The strangeness and surprise took Mary off her guard, and she faltered:
A Son of the Hills
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She was off her guard, and she spoke it aloud to Durrance.
The Four Feathers
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She was angry enough, at that moment, to be off her guard.
The Fallen Leaves
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Cornelia flushed and trembled; the traitorous feint had thrown her off her guard.
Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
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Once before when you played that overture you were off your guard.
The Four Feathers
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You were so happy, that perhaps you were thrown off your guard.
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
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That was a blind, monsieur, meant to throw you off your guard.
For The Admiral
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And a thing like that takes you off your guard.
The stranger
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You showed the truth plainly when off your guard.
An Original Belle
Ús de napping en anglès
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But once in a while even the smartest people are caught napping.
Old Granny Fox
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In football the unexpected counts most, and Harmony was certainly caught napping.
Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums
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He had earned it while napping, although he did not understand how.
Catch-22
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Must give up important ball chasing, important napping, important sniffing-allto write.
A big little life
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Sound it did, in short time, but it caught no one napping.
Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point / Or, Finding the Glor...
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Aye, Newman was a wise lad; he would not be caught napping.
The Blood Ship
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If we're caught napping, Stinker will come out on top pretty quick.
The two towers
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If the lookout was caught napping, the whole watch was kept awake.
Two Years Before the Mast
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In seconds he was sound asleep- alight-switchnapping ability I thoroughly envied.
Terminal
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I was taking a chance by napping, but I was very tired.
Carrion comfort
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Drogba is caught napping, panics, goes to ground and brings him down.
The Guardian
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For once Brookes was caught napping, expecting a drive down the line.
The Art of Lawn Tennis
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His breathing grew deep and regular, and she thought he was napping.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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Labour caught us napping and struck at our weakest place, the stomach.
The Strength of the Strong
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Even have I found Louis, the steward, and Wada guilty of cat-napping.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
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I leapt over a bench, surprising a patient who had been napping.
Monster Hunter International
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