0 to cause someone to be in a difficult situation by doing something unexpected: --
The company was completely wrong-footed by the dollar's sudden recovery.
He has confounded and wrong-footed the professional moaners who carp about things being too little, too late.
There is always a desire to wrong-foot the viewer.
It can be used to wrong-foot a defense.
However, renegotiation would wrong-foot the federalists.
It is an attempt to wrong-foot them on the vital and populist issue of price control, which everybody believes is a good thing.
It was not merely to wrong-foot him that our first report was on housing benefit fraud.
Finally, they too get the idea and wrong-foot it enthusiastically to the sudden conclusion.
Its text is unrelentingly metaphorical and its setting attempts to wrong-foot the performer by relying upon his or her familiarity with another playful convention.
