Usage of "off his guard"

Not prepared or vigilant.

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Usage of off his guard in English

The advantage always lies in catching the other fellow off his guard. 
 The Scranton High Chums on the Cinder Path / Or, The Mystery of ... 

It put him right off his guard after he'd disposed of that. 
 Report for Murder 

The sudden change in his wife's manner threw him off his guard. 
 After the Storm 

Thus thrown off his guard, he blindly dashed into the wrong channel. 
 Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land 

For a fraction of a second he was caught off his guard. 
 Oh, You Tex! 

He is strong and subtle, but I talked him off his guard. 
 Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman 

Therefore she put her question, and Wogan was taken off his guard. 
 Clementina 

I ventured nonchalantly, with a view to taking him off his guard. 
 Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge... 

Hanging limp, and apparently senseless, I put him quite off his guard. 
 An Enemy to the King / From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of t... 

Sam gave a queer little laugh as if taken off his guard. 
 Lo, Michael! 

If he was off his guard now, the trick was worth it. 
 The waste lands 

He was not, however, a man to be taken off his guard. 
 Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 

Thrown, for a moment, off his guard, he replied with some warmth- 
 Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures 

Adax had tried to rush him once off his guard, Totho realized. 
 Empire in black and gold 

But his eyes were kind, and that put Nate off his guard. 
 Apocalypse of the Dead 

Taken off his guard he toppled backwards into the arms of his attacker. 
 The two towers 

Meanings of off his guard in English