Not prepared or vigilant.
1 The advantage always lies in catching the other fellow off his guard .
2 It put him right off his guard after he'd disposed of that.
3 The sudden change in his wife's manner threw him off his guard .
4 Thus thrown off his guard , he blindly dashed into the wrong channel.
5 For a fraction of a second he was caught off his guard .
6 He is strong and subtle, but I talked him off his guard .
7 Therefore she put her question, and Wogan was taken off his guard .
8 I ventured nonchalantly, with a view to taking him off his guard .
9 Hanging limp, and apparently senseless, I put him quite off his guard .
10 Sam gave a queer little laugh as if taken off his guard .
11 If he was off his guard now, the trick was worth it.
12 He was not, however, a man to be taken off his guard .
13 Thrown, for a moment, off his guard , he replied with some warmth-
14 Adax had tried to rush him once off his guard , Totho realized.
15 But his eyes were kind, and that put Nate off his guard .
16 Taken off his guard he toppled backwards into the arms of his attacker.
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