Usage of "off-guard" | TermGallery

Not prepared or vigilant.

Related terms

Synonyms

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... 

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! 

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-guard in английском

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 

But you caught us off-guard... and the next thing we knew - 
 Complete Books of Blood 

Not only was he good man, but his death caught us off-guard. 
 The South African 

They were, however-perhapsfor the first time in their savage career-takencompletely off-guard. 
 Act of will 

Earlier this month, a surprise bout of power outages caught many residents off-guard. 
 The South African 

This left them caught off-guard by the new regime's sudden change in policy. 
 The Guardian 

One London-based investor said he was caught off-guard by the news. 
 Reuters 

It caught me a little off-guard to be honest…especially the amount of…negative attention. 
 Ebony 

His intuitive question caught me almost as off-guard as my sudden reaction had. 
 The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery 

She was strong and quick; a blur of venom that took him off-guard. 
 Complete Books of Blood 

Russian officials and bankers say they acted specifically to catch U.S. officials off-guard. 
 Reuters 

There was nothing he brought up that caught the president off-guard. 
 Ebony 

Meanings of off-guard in английском