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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
wrong-foot .
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Examples
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Nickers is on exactly the right path, especially as this approach completely wrong-foots the Tories.
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In its insistent interrogation of Jewishness? from the exploration of the relationship between the perpetrators of violence and hatred and their victims, to the idea of the individual at once in opposition to and in love with his or her culture? it is by turns breezily open and thought-provokingly opaque, and consistently wrong-foots the reader.
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Chelsea 3 Blackpool 0 (Didier Drogba, 30mins) Ashley Cole cuts the ball back, Drogba spins and hits a first-time shot that gets a pretty serious deflection and wrong-foots Gilks.
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• Public sector net cash requirement hit £20. 9bn last month• Surprise increase wrong-foots economists
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Paxo starts off confidently but Galloway soon wrong-foots Paxo, putting him in defensive mode.
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His latest pronouncement (approved by the Guardian as something that wrong-foots Gordon Brown) tells us that “there is more to life than money”.
The engineer of human souls Helen 2006
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Instead, he wrong-foots both his enemies and allies by delivering humanitarian aid to the neighbouring, warring kingdom of Cairhien and travelling into the Aiel Waste, where he hopes to unify the feuding warrior-clans under his leadership.
The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan Adam Whitehead 2008
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But, as a negotiating ploy it is superb as it completely wrong-foots the EU, especially as – like Blair – Bush has linked it to the quest to alleviate poverty in Africa.
Looks like fun Richard 2005
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Furthermore, each time he does so, he wrong-foots Howard.
The shadow of Maastricht Richard 2004
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Because they are released three weeks early, it wrong-foots all the authorities.
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