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Significados de off-guard en inglés

Not prepared or vigilant.

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        Examples for "napping"
        1
        But once in a while even the smartest people are caught napping.
        Old Granny Fox
        2
        In football the unexpected counts most, and Harmony was certainly caught napping.
        Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums
        3
        He had earned it while napping, although he did not understand how.
        Catch-22
        4
        Must give up important ball chasing, important napping, important sniffing-allto write.
        A big little life
        5
        Sound it did, in short time, but it caught no one napping.
        Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point / Or, Finding the Glor...
        1
        The advantage always lies in catching the other fellow off his guard.
        The Scranton High Chums on the Cinder Path / Or, The Mystery of ...
        2
        It put him right off his guard after he'd disposed of that.
        Report for Murder
        3
        The sudden change in his wife's manner threw him off his guard.
        After the Storm
        4
        Thus thrown off his guard, he blindly dashed into the wrong channel.
        Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land
        5
        For a fraction of a second he was caught off his guard.
        Oh, You Tex!
        1
        Stephanie was off her guard for once, in no truly fencing mood.
        The Titan
        2
        The strangeness and surprise took Mary off her guard, and she faltered:
        A Son of the Hills
        3
        She was off her guard, and she spoke it aloud to Durrance.
        The Four Feathers
        4
        She was angry enough, at that moment, to be off her guard.
        The Fallen Leaves
        5
        Cornelia flushed and trembled; the traitorous feint had thrown her off her guard.
        Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
        1
        Once before when you played that overture you were off your guard.
        The Four Feathers
        2
        You were so happy, that perhaps you were thrown off your guard.
        The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
        3
        That was a blind, monsieur, meant to throw you off your guard.
        For The Admiral
        4
        And a thing like that takes you off your guard.
        The stranger
        5
        You showed the truth plainly when off your guard.
        An Original Belle
        Uso de off-guard en inglés
        1
        I couldn't say if he was disappointed or just caught completely off-guard.
        Act of will
        2
        One long-time resident, Susan Wright, said the blaze had caught everyone off-guard.
        News.com.au
        3
        But it caught the scientific community tasked with informing policy makers off-guard.
        The Guardian
        4
        It was the assembly of her senior year that threw her off-guard.
        Good girls don't
        5
        They smashed into the group, catching them off-guard with their unexpected speed.
        The skein of lament
        6
        But you caught us off-guard... and the next thing we knew -
        Complete Books of Blood
        7
        Not only was he good man, but his death caught us off-guard.
        The South African
        8
        They were, however-perhapsfor the first time in their savage career-takencompletely off-guard.
        Act of will
        9
        Earlier this month, a surprise bout of power outages caught many residents off-guard.
        The South African
        10
        This left them caught off-guard by the new regime's sudden change in policy.
        The Guardian
        11
        One London-based investor said he was caught off-guard by the news.
        Reuters
        12
        It caught me a little off-guard to be honest…especially the amount of…negative attention.
        Ebony
        13
        His intuitive question caught me almost as off-guard as my sudden reaction had.
        The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery
        14
        She was strong and quick; a blur of venom that took him off-guard.
        Complete Books of Blood
        15
        Russian officials and bankers say they acted specifically to catch U.S. officials off-guard.
        Reuters
        16
        There was nothing he brought up that caught the president off-guard.
        Ebony