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Caught Wrong Foot Unpleasantly Surprised Completely Expected Put

Idiom to be caught on the wrong foot
Definition to be unpleasantly surprised by something
Examples - We were caught completely on the wrong foot. We expected them to put out a weak team, but in fact they played their best men.
- In business you need to think ahead. You don't want to be caught on the wrong foot.
- Paul and my wife had kept this a secret, and to be perfectly honest I was caught on the wrong foot.
- Bosses don't like to be caught on the wrong foot in a room full of spectators.

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