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Off your guard   /ɔf jɔr gɑrd/   Listen
Off your guard

adjective
1.
Not prepared or vigilant.  Synonyms: napping, off-guard, off guard, off her guard, off his guard, off one's guard.  "Caught in an off-guard moment" , "Found him off his guard"






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"Off your guard" Quotes from Famous Books



... have now abandond Boston, on which I sincerely congratulate you. We have not yet heard what Course they have steerd. I judge for Hallifax. They may return if they hear that you are off your Guard. Or probably they may go up St Lawrence River as early as the Season will admit of it. Does it not behove N England to secure her self from future Invasions, while the Attention of Congress is turnd to N York & Canada. We seem to have the Game in our own hands; if ...
— The Writings of Samuel Adams, vol. III. • Samuel Adams

... from either. What the daguerreotype and photograph do is to give the features and one particular look, the very look which kills all expression, that of self-consciousness. The artist throws you off your guard, watches you in movement and in repose, puts your face through its exercises, observes its transitions, and so gets the whole range of its expression. Out of all this he forms an ideal portrait, which is not a copy of your exact look at any one time or to any ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)



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