Usage of "off his guard"

Not prepared or vigilant.

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Examples for "napping"

But once in a while even the smartest people are caught napping. 
 Old Granny Fox 

In football the unexpected counts most, and Harmony was certainly caught napping. 
 Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums 

He had earned it while napping, although he did not understand how. 
 Catch-22 

Must give up important ball chasing, important napping, important sniffing-allto write. 
 A big little life 

Sound it did, in short time, but it caught no one napping. 
 Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point / Or, Finding the Glor... 

I couldn't say if he was disappointed or just caught completely off-guard. 
 Act of will 

One long-time resident, Susan Wright, said the blaze had caught everyone off-guard. 
 News.com.au 

But it caught the scientific community tasked with informing policy makers off-guard. 
 The Guardian 

It was the assembly of her senior year that threw her off-guard. 
 Good girls don't 

They smashed into the group, catching them off-guard with their unexpected speed. 
 The skein of lament 

Stephanie was off her guard for once, in no truly fencing mood. 
 The Titan 

The strangeness and surprise took Mary off her guard, and she faltered: 
 A Son of the Hills 

She was off her guard, and she spoke it aloud to Durrance. 
 The Four Feathers 

She was angry enough, at that moment, to be off her guard. 
 The Fallen Leaves 

Cornelia flushed and trembled; the traitorous feint had thrown her off her guard. 
 Sandra Belloni — Volume 2 

Once before when you played that overture you were off your guard. 
 The Four Feathers 

You were so happy, that perhaps you were thrown off your guard. 
 The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations 

That was a blind, monsieur, meant to throw you off your guard. 
 For The Admiral 

And a thing like that takes you off your guard. 
 The stranger 

You showed the truth plainly when off your guard. 
 An Original Belle 

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