0 past participle, past simple of wrong-foot --
1 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.
As a fielding team can not manoeuvre fielders while the bowler is in his run-up, the fielding side is effectively wrong-footed with the fielders out of position.
The prosecution was wrong-footed and never fully recovered.
Vafrnir, wrong-footed, invites him in and to seat himself.
The press was not only wrong-footed by the appointment, but generally highly critical.
He has confounded and wrong-footed the professional moaners who carp about things being too little, too late.
Sure enough, at least half of the properties were bought by young marrieds and the education authority was caught wrong-footed to a disastrous degree.
The parish council does not have sufficient information and is often wrong-footed and put at a great disadvantage.