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flat-footed
/ ˌflætˈfʊtɪd /
adjective
- having flatfoot
- informal.
- clumsy or awkward
- downright and uncompromising
- informal.off guard or unawares (often in the phrase catch flat-footed )
Derived Forms
- ˌflat-ˈfootedly, adverb
- ˌflat-ˈfootedness, noun
Idioms and Phrases
see caught flat-footed .Example Sentences
There, so taken, caught in the act, flat-footed, we are obliged to make our stand.
Instead, it left the candidate scrambling and her campaign flat footed.
On Sunday the publisher was caught flat-footed and scrambling to respond to the leak.
Obama's offensive caught the Romney camp completely by surprise and left them flat-footed and slack jawed.
Knowing that, why have the Republican presidential primary candidates been caught flat-footed every time?
First there was a small, flat-footed scarlet slipper with a fluffy gold toe to it.
Since then I believe nothing more has been seen of these flat-footed people.
The little bunt had proved so totally unexpected that the Belden players were caught flat-footed.
I'd like to take a flat-footed stance as claiming that the end justified the means.
They are bilt sumthing like a hen, and are an up-and-down, flat-footed job.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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