Definition of wrong-foot in English:

wrong-foot

verb ˌrɒŋˈfʊtˈˌrɑŋ ˈfʊt

[with object]British

1(in a game) play so as to catch (an opponent) off balance.
Cook wrong-footed the defence with a low free kick
Example sentencesExamples
- The ball fell to wide man Ian Ross and his deflected snapshot from the 18-yard line wrong-footed keeper Tony Bullock.
- It looked like City's luck was in when Combe was wrong-footed by Matthieu Louis-Jean's drive that deflected off team-mate Danny Sonner.
- He wrong-footed fullback Sean Barnes with a clever change of pace and dived over in the corner.
- Smith's well struck shot beat James Mackey, who was wrong-footed by a wicked deflection off a Mill defender.
- The midfielder's shot was straight into the ground but took a ricochet and wrong-footed Davison.
- Centre Graham Mackay added both goals, but Deacon gave the visitors hope when he wrong-footed defender Adam Maher to slice through for Bradford's try.
- Having wrong-footed a defender challenging him, he found the net from a static position.
- Kabba volleyed home from an oblique angle, wrong-footing Lewis Price.
- Joe Cole has a speculator from 25 yards, it hits Lucio's heel, and completely wrong-foots Mary Shelley's Oliver Kahn.
- Mendieta curls an absolute beauty, wrong-footing a bemused Arendse, which flies into the corner.
- A minute later Sylvain Wiltord's strike hit Ian Baraclough to wrong-foot Ludek Miklosko and the game was all but over.
- But I wrong-footed him and bent it around the wall and into the bottom right of his net, and it was hit with such force he had no way of getting back to it.
- Sanchez wrong-foots Henman for the first time in the match as the Briton heads to the net once more.
- It followed a period of sustained pressure which had seen Figo wrong-foot three United defenders and chip the ball on to the crossbar.
- As more Stuttgart players were drawn towards him, his reverse pass wrong-footed the entire defence to leave Giggs scampering clear before rolling his shot calmly beyond Hildebrand.
- A slick side-step wrong-footed the Dewsbury full back and Stepho looked poised to score, but he was held just two yards short of the try line.
- Smicer again picked him out with an astute pass in the 18th minute that wrong-footed the visitors' defence.
- He cuts inside the last defender and wrong-foots the keeper.
- Ferdinand will wince when he sees how he was wrong-footed as Szabics evaded him with a run from midfield and then, from the edge of the penalty area, side-footed a precise shot beyond Howard.
- From the restart after Loughborough kicked a penalty, Oxford worked the ball to left winger Adam Slade on the blind side, who wrong-footed the Loughborough defence to score.
Synonyms
catch out, trap, trick, outwit, outsmart
1. 1.1 Put (someone) in a difficult situation by saying or doing something unexpected.
  an announcement regarded as an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition
  Example sentencesExamples
  His remarks prompted speculation last night that the Government was purposefully sending out mixed messages to try and wrong-foot opposition.
  About Schmidt is a clinic in tone, a comedy so consistently melancholy it continually wrong-foots its audience in a good way.
  Loach wrong-foots his characters from the start, as they are all seemingly unaware of these antecedents.
  In addition, the Leader of the Opposition has twice been spectacularly wrong-footed over the aftermath of the conflict.
  The alliance wrong-foots the opposition who are not expecting a power on the brink of elimination to switch sides to its conqueror.
  Most impressive of all, Armantrout retains, nine books into her career, the ability to wrong-foot her reader entirely.
  He fails completely, of course, but with his attempts to confound and wrong-foot audiences more used to linear stories, it is a noble failure.
  Investors were wrong-footed by the quarter-point reduction to 3.75%, the lowest rate since 1955.
  I was once wrong-footed by a 22-year-old Smith who decided to explain the basics of the harmonic scale to me in a London café bar.
  Joss Whedon delivers a nicely paced storyline, one which only hints at some of the motivations of the major players and frequently wrong-foots the reader.
  ‘It is a question of taking a tragedy and making a political issue out of it, attempting to wrong-foot the government on this issue,’ he said.
  But we were wrong-footed a little bit by the regulations and other teams do the better job.
  There's no doubt in my mind that it was ‘brought forward’ in order to wrong-foot any planned attacks.
  The action two weeks ago was the first time since the mid-1980s that effective mass secondary strike action has taken place, wrong-footing the employers and also, sadly, the tortoise-like structures of our own official trade unionism.
  There are occasions during The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek when the excellent cast are wrong-footed by their author.
  While latching on to the up-country trend, the industry here found itself wrong-footed and woefully short of male dancing talents.
  His problem now is that, with an election in the offing, his political opponents will look for every opportunity to wrong-foot him and that is sad for the country.
  A good apology, properly timed, is like a good judo throw - it can totally wrong-foot an opponent.
  Final track Come and Go completely wrong-foots you with its bossa-nova beat.
  In four years he had gone from nobody to totemic figure, each new direction he took wrong-footing fans who were desperately trying to keep pace with him.

Rhymes

afoot, clubfoot, foot, hotfoot, kaput, put, soot, splay-foot, underfoot, Yakut

Definition of wrong-foot in US English:

wrong-foot

verbˈˌrɑŋ ˈfʊtˈˌräNG ˈfo͝ot

[with object]British

1(in a game) play so as to catch (an opponent) off balance.
Cook wrong-footed the defense with a low free kick
Example sentencesExamples
- Ferdinand will wince when he sees how he was wrong-footed as Szabics evaded him with a run from midfield and then, from the edge of the penalty area, side-footed a precise shot beyond Howard.
- As more Stuttgart players were drawn towards him, his reverse pass wrong-footed the entire defence to leave Giggs scampering clear before rolling his shot calmly beyond Hildebrand.
- The midfielder's shot was straight into the ground but took a ricochet and wrong-footed Davison.
- The ball fell to wide man Ian Ross and his deflected snapshot from the 18-yard line wrong-footed keeper Tony Bullock.
- Kabba volleyed home from an oblique angle, wrong-footing Lewis Price.
- From the restart after Loughborough kicked a penalty, Oxford worked the ball to left winger Adam Slade on the blind side, who wrong-footed the Loughborough defence to score.
- It looked like City's luck was in when Combe was wrong-footed by Matthieu Louis-Jean's drive that deflected off team-mate Danny Sonner.
- He wrong-footed fullback Sean Barnes with a clever change of pace and dived over in the corner.
- But I wrong-footed him and bent it around the wall and into the bottom right of his net, and it was hit with such force he had no way of getting back to it.
- Mendieta curls an absolute beauty, wrong-footing a bemused Arendse, which flies into the corner.
- Sanchez wrong-foots Henman for the first time in the match as the Briton heads to the net once more.
- A slick side-step wrong-footed the Dewsbury full back and Stepho looked poised to score, but he was held just two yards short of the try line.
- Centre Graham Mackay added both goals, but Deacon gave the visitors hope when he wrong-footed defender Adam Maher to slice through for Bradford's try.
- It followed a period of sustained pressure which had seen Figo wrong-foot three United defenders and chip the ball on to the crossbar.
- A minute later Sylvain Wiltord's strike hit Ian Baraclough to wrong-foot Ludek Miklosko and the game was all but over.
- Smith's well struck shot beat James Mackey, who was wrong-footed by a wicked deflection off a Mill defender.
- Smicer again picked him out with an astute pass in the 18th minute that wrong-footed the visitors' defence.
- He cuts inside the last defender and wrong-foots the keeper.
- Joe Cole has a speculator from 25 yards, it hits Lucio's heel, and completely wrong-foots Mary Shelley's Oliver Kahn.
- Having wrong-footed a defender challenging him, he found the net from a static position.
Synonyms
catch out, trap, trick, outwit, outsmart
1. 1.1 Put (someone) in a difficult or embarrassing situation by saying or doing something that they do not expect.
  an announcement regarded as an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition
  Example sentencesExamples
  Joss Whedon delivers a nicely paced storyline, one which only hints at some of the motivations of the major players and frequently wrong-foots the reader.
  Most impressive of all, Armantrout retains, nine books into her career, the ability to wrong-foot her reader entirely.
  But we were wrong-footed a little bit by the regulations and other teams do the better job.
  Loach wrong-foots his characters from the start, as they are all seemingly unaware of these antecedents.
  There are occasions during The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek when the excellent cast are wrong-footed by their author.
  While latching on to the up-country trend, the industry here found itself wrong-footed and woefully short of male dancing talents.
  A good apology, properly timed, is like a good judo throw - it can totally wrong-foot an opponent.
  I was once wrong-footed by a 22-year-old Smith who decided to explain the basics of the harmonic scale to me in a London café bar.
  His problem now is that, with an election in the offing, his political opponents will look for every opportunity to wrong-foot him and that is sad for the country.
  He fails completely, of course, but with his attempts to confound and wrong-foot audiences more used to linear stories, it is a noble failure.
  In four years he had gone from nobody to totemic figure, each new direction he took wrong-footing fans who were desperately trying to keep pace with him.
  The alliance wrong-foots the opposition who are not expecting a power on the brink of elimination to switch sides to its conqueror.
  About Schmidt is a clinic in tone, a comedy so consistently melancholy it continually wrong-foots its audience in a good way.
  In addition, the Leader of the Opposition has twice been spectacularly wrong-footed over the aftermath of the conflict.
  Final track Come and Go completely wrong-foots you with its bossa-nova beat.
  His remarks prompted speculation last night that the Government was purposefully sending out mixed messages to try and wrong-foot opposition.
  ‘It is a question of taking a tragedy and making a political issue out of it, attempting to wrong-foot the government on this issue,’ he said.
  The action two weeks ago was the first time since the mid-1980s that effective mass secondary strike action has taken place, wrong-footing the employers and also, sadly, the tortoise-like structures of our own official trade unionism.
  Investors were wrong-footed by the quarter-point reduction to 3.75%, the lowest rate since 1955.
  There's no doubt in my mind that it was ‘brought forward’ in order to wrong-foot any planned attacks.

单词	wrong-foot
释义	Definition of wrong-foot in English: wrong-foot verb ˌrɒŋˈfʊtˈˌrɑŋ ˈfʊt [with object]British 1(in a game) play so as to catch (an opponent) off balance. Cook wrong-footed the defence with a low free kick Example sentencesExamples The ball fell to wide man Ian Ross and his deflected snapshot from the 18-yard line wrong-footed keeper Tony Bullock. It looked like City's luck was in when Combe was wrong-footed by Matthieu Louis-Jean's drive that deflected off team-mate Danny Sonner. He wrong-footed fullback Sean Barnes with a clever change of pace and dived over in the corner. Smith's well struck shot beat James Mackey, who was wrong-footed by a wicked deflection off a Mill defender. The midfielder's shot was straight into the ground but took a ricochet and wrong-footed Davison. Centre Graham Mackay added both goals, but Deacon gave the visitors hope when he wrong-footed defender Adam Maher to slice through for Bradford's try. Having wrong-footed a defender challenging him, he found the net from a static position. Kabba volleyed home from an oblique angle, wrong-footing Lewis Price. Joe Cole has a speculator from 25 yards, it hits Lucio's heel, and completely wrong-foots Mary Shelley's Oliver Kahn. Mendieta curls an absolute beauty, wrong-footing a bemused Arendse, which flies into the corner. A minute later Sylvain Wiltord's strike hit Ian Baraclough to wrong-foot Ludek Miklosko and the game was all but over. But I wrong-footed him and bent it around the wall and into the bottom right of his net, and it was hit with such force he had no way of getting back to it. Sanchez wrong-foots Henman for the first time in the match as the Briton heads to the net once more. It followed a period of sustained pressure which had seen Figo wrong-foot three United defenders and chip the ball on to the crossbar. As more Stuttgart players were drawn towards him, his reverse pass wrong-footed the entire defence to leave Giggs scampering clear before rolling his shot calmly beyond Hildebrand. A slick side-step wrong-footed the Dewsbury full back and Stepho looked poised to score, but he was held just two yards short of the try line. Smicer again picked him out with an astute pass in the 18th minute that wrong-footed the visitors' defence. He cuts inside the last defender and wrong-foots the keeper. Ferdinand will wince when he sees how he was wrong-footed as Szabics evaded him with a run from midfield and then, from the edge of the penalty area, side-footed a precise shot beyond Howard. From the restart after Loughborough kicked a penalty, Oxford worked the ball to left winger Adam Slade on the blind side, who wrong-footed the Loughborough defence to score. Synonyms catch out, trap, trick, outwit, outsmart 1.1 Put (someone) in a difficult situation by saying or doing something unexpected. an announcement regarded as an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition Example sentencesExamples His remarks prompted speculation last night that the Government was purposefully sending out mixed messages to try and wrong-foot opposition. About Schmidt is a clinic in tone, a comedy so consistently melancholy it continually wrong-foots its audience in a good way. Loach wrong-foots his characters from the start, as they are all seemingly unaware of these antecedents. In addition, the Leader of the Opposition has twice been spectacularly wrong-footed over the aftermath of the conflict. The alliance wrong-foots the opposition who are not expecting a power on the brink of elimination to switch sides to its conqueror. Most impressive of all, Armantrout retains, nine books into her career, the ability to wrong-foot her reader entirely. He fails completely, of course, but with his attempts to confound and wrong-foot audiences more used to linear stories, it is a noble failure. Investors were wrong-footed by the quarter-point reduction to 3.75%, the lowest rate since 1955. I was once wrong-footed by a 22-year-old Smith who decided to explain the basics of the harmonic scale to me in a London café bar. Joss Whedon delivers a nicely paced storyline, one which only hints at some of the motivations of the major players and frequently wrong-foots the reader. ‘It is a question of taking a tragedy and making a political issue out of it, attempting to wrong-foot the government on this issue,’ he said. But we were wrong-footed a little bit by the regulations and other teams do the better job. There's no doubt in my mind that it was ‘brought forward’ in order to wrong-foot any planned attacks. The action two weeks ago was the first time since the mid-1980s that effective mass secondary strike action has taken place, wrong-footing the employers and also, sadly, the tortoise-like structures of our own official trade unionism. There are occasions during The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek when the excellent cast are wrong-footed by their author. While latching on to the up-country trend, the industry here found itself wrong-footed and woefully short of male dancing talents. His problem now is that, with an election in the offing, his political opponents will look for every opportunity to wrong-foot him and that is sad for the country. A good apology, properly timed, is like a good judo throw - it can totally wrong-foot an opponent. Final track Come and Go completely wrong-foots you with its bossa-nova beat. In four years he had gone from nobody to totemic figure, each new direction he took wrong-footing fans who were desperately trying to keep pace with him. Rhymes afoot, clubfoot, foot, hotfoot, kaput, put, soot, splay-foot, underfoot, Yakut Definition of wrong-foot in US English: wrong-foot verbˈˌrɑŋ ˈfʊtˈˌräNG ˈfo͝ot [with object]British 1(in a game) play so as to catch (an opponent) off balance. Cook wrong-footed the defense with a low free kick Example sentencesExamples Ferdinand will wince when he sees how he was wrong-footed as Szabics evaded him with a run from midfield and then, from the edge of the penalty area, side-footed a precise shot beyond Howard. As more Stuttgart players were drawn towards him, his reverse pass wrong-footed the entire defence to leave Giggs scampering clear before rolling his shot calmly beyond Hildebrand. The midfielder's shot was straight into the ground but took a ricochet and wrong-footed Davison. The ball fell to wide man Ian Ross and his deflected snapshot from the 18-yard line wrong-footed keeper Tony Bullock. Kabba volleyed home from an oblique angle, wrong-footing Lewis Price. From the restart after Loughborough kicked a penalty, Oxford worked the ball to left winger Adam Slade on the blind side, who wrong-footed the Loughborough defence to score. It looked like City's luck was in when Combe was wrong-footed by Matthieu Louis-Jean's drive that deflected off team-mate Danny Sonner. He wrong-footed fullback Sean Barnes with a clever change of pace and dived over in the corner. But I wrong-footed him and bent it around the wall and into the bottom right of his net, and it was hit with such force he had no way of getting back to it. Mendieta curls an absolute beauty, wrong-footing a bemused Arendse, which flies into the corner. Sanchez wrong-foots Henman for the first time in the match as the Briton heads to the net once more. A slick side-step wrong-footed the Dewsbury full back and Stepho looked poised to score, but he was held just two yards short of the try line. Centre Graham Mackay added both goals, but Deacon gave the visitors hope when he wrong-footed defender Adam Maher to slice through for Bradford's try. It followed a period of sustained pressure which had seen Figo wrong-foot three United defenders and chip the ball on to the crossbar. A minute later Sylvain Wiltord's strike hit Ian Baraclough to wrong-foot Ludek Miklosko and the game was all but over. Smith's well struck shot beat James Mackey, who was wrong-footed by a wicked deflection off a Mill defender. Smicer again picked him out with an astute pass in the 18th minute that wrong-footed the visitors' defence. He cuts inside the last defender and wrong-foots the keeper. Joe Cole has a speculator from 25 yards, it hits Lucio's heel, and completely wrong-foots Mary Shelley's Oliver Kahn. Having wrong-footed a defender challenging him, he found the net from a static position. Synonyms catch out, trap, trick, outwit, outsmart 1.1 Put (someone) in a difficult or embarrassing situation by saying or doing something that they do not expect. an announcement regarded as an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition Example sentencesExamples Joss Whedon delivers a nicely paced storyline, one which only hints at some of the motivations of the major players and frequently wrong-foots the reader. Most impressive of all, Armantrout retains, nine books into her career, the ability to wrong-foot her reader entirely. But we were wrong-footed a little bit by the regulations and other teams do the better job. Loach wrong-foots his characters from the start, as they are all seemingly unaware of these antecedents. There are occasions during The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek when the excellent cast are wrong-footed by their author. While latching on to the up-country trend, the industry here found itself wrong-footed and woefully short of male dancing talents. A good apology, properly timed, is like a good judo throw - it can totally wrong-foot an opponent. I was once wrong-footed by a 22-year-old Smith who decided to explain the basics of the harmonic scale to me in a London café bar. His problem now is that, with an election in the offing, his political opponents will look for every opportunity to wrong-foot him and that is sad for the country. He fails completely, of course, but with his attempts to confound and wrong-foot audiences more used to linear stories, it is a noble failure. In four years he had gone from nobody to totemic figure, each new direction he took wrong-footing fans who were desperately trying to keep pace with him. The alliance wrong-foots the opposition who are not expecting a power on the brink of elimination to switch sides to its conqueror. About Schmidt is a clinic in tone, a comedy so consistently melancholy it continually wrong-foots its audience in a good way. In addition, the Leader of the Opposition has twice been spectacularly wrong-footed over the aftermath of the conflict. Final track Come and Go completely wrong-foots you with its bossa-nova beat. His remarks prompted speculation last night that the Government was purposefully sending out mixed messages to try and wrong-foot opposition. ‘It is a question of taking a tragedy and making a political issue out of it, attempting to wrong-foot the government on this issue,’ he said. The action two weeks ago was the first time since the mid-1980s that effective mass secondary strike action has taken place, wrong-footing the employers and also, sadly, the tortoise-like structures of our own official trade unionism. Investors were wrong-footed by the quarter-point reduction to 3.75%, the lowest rate since 1955. There's no doubt in my mind that it was ‘brought forward’ in order to wrong-foot any planned attacks.
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