wrongfoot

Not only was the president not interested in using diplomacy to avert war, to the contrary, the only reason for the diplomacy in the first place was the mistaken belief that it would "wrongfoot" Saddam, who would provide a provocation for attack by rejecting weapons inspectors.

Someone Needs A Times-Out 2006

Amundsen had concealed his plans to wrongfoot the competition.

Scott of the Antarctic: hero or buffoon? 2011

Rourke has the ability to continuously wrongfoot his reader, draw clouds over the sun and blow them off again.

Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke Sam Jordison 2010

Whether cheaply or expensively, Wenger knows he needs to augment a team which consistently struggled to wrongfoot Alan Pardew's excellent central defensive pairing of Fabricio Coloccini and Steven Taylor.

Arsenal show need for reinforcements after failure to outwit Newcastle 2011

He has no interest in starting that relationship in a very exclusive and intense club off on the wrongfoot.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Scalia on Kagan’s Lack of Judicial Experience 2010

The cost of watching Premiership football matches is set to plunge for sports fans willing to sign up with BT, but will rise for customers of Sky after the satellite broadcaster tried to wrongfoot its rival today by increasing its prices.

Sky wrongfoots rival BT by raising prices 2010

He has no interest in starting that relationship in a very exclusive and intense club off on the wrongfoot.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Scalia on Kagan’s Lack of Judicial Experience 2010

If so, you can see their thinking: that it would wrongfoot Cameron and deflect "Why is he still in his job?" type questions.

PMQs live blog 2009

The immediate theory was that Brown released it to wrongfoot David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

If so, you can see their thinking: that it would wrongfoot Cameron and deflect "Why is he still in his job?" type questions.

PMQs live blog 2009