wrong-footverb
uk/ˌrɒŋˈfʊt/us/ˌrɑːŋˈfʊt/[ T often passive ] 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.
[ T ] UK in a sport, to hit or kick the ball so that the other player believes the ball will go in the opposite direction to the one in which it will really go, in order to make him or her move in the wrong direction
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Causing difficulties for oneself or others
- be a tall order idiom
- be asking for trouble idiom
- be your own worst enemy idiom
- bugger
- bugger sb about
- dig
- lay
- lay yourself open to attack, criticism, ridicule, etc. idiom
- like pulling teeth idiom
- make a rod for your own back idiom
- make heavy weather of sth idiom
- overburden
- pose
- shoot
- spell trouble idiom
- store
- store sth up
- store up trouble/problems idiom
- subject sb/sth to sth
- suicide
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