blind side 
noun
1A direction in which a person has a poor view of approaching traffic or danger: a punch delivered on the referee’s blind side...
- And with maddening consistency, the easiest birds approach unsaluted from the blind side.
- From Brennan's puck out, Waterford went back on the attack and Paul Flynn was lucky to be awarded a free in possession after he had fouled the ball on the blind side of referee, Tom McIntyre.
- I didn't get riled when he bit me or when he put my arm in a lock on the blind side of the referee and tried to break it or when he headbutted me and opened up a cut that needed 17 stitches.
1.1 Rugby The side of the scrum opposite that on which the main line of the opponents' backs is ranged.With seconds remaining Philips exploited space on the blind side from a scrum on the French 10-metre line....
- In a complete reversal of form Keighley were now well in control and Brodleians lead was reduced to a single point when a neat blind side break by scrum half Scott Amos opened the way for wingman Chris Watts to sprint to the line.
- They kept the game tight up front for long periods but were absent on the blind side when scrum half Barry McCann took off on a 40 meter run.
verb (blindside) [with object] North American
1Hit or attack (someone) on their blind side: Graber blindsided Kelly, knocking him to the pavement...
- ‘We were completely blindsided off the road,’ said an unidentified man who was hurt on Wednesday morning.
- The second attacker came from the left this time, blindsiding the girl with a roughly placed fist to her temple.
- Then, late in the week, linebacker Ira Davis blindsides cornerback Jason David at his locker because Davis thinks David is seeing his girlfriend.
1.1Make (someone) unable to perceive the truth of a situation: we got blindsided by our own government...
- The second act, at 25 minutes, which blindsided me to a degree, is an exercise in unconventional reconciliation and takes place in the hung-over wake of the previous night's revelations.
- So, she's completely blindsided when he's arrested, dragged into a military court and accused of murdering nine people.
- It's also true that we were blindsided by the election results.
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