The advantage always lies in catching the other fellow off his guard.

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

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

Thus thrown off his guard, he blindly dashed into the wrong channel.

For a fraction of a second he was caught off his guard.

He is strong and subtle, but I talked him off his guard.

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

I ventured nonchalantly, with a view to taking him off his guard.

Hanging limp, and apparently senseless, I put him quite off his guard.

Sam gave a queer little laugh as if taken off his guard.

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

He was not, however, a man to be taken off his guard.

Thrown, for a moment, off his guard, he replied with some warmth-

Adax had tried to rush him once off his guard, Totho realized.

But his eyes were kind, and that put Nate off his guard.

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