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Off guard   /ɔf gɑrd/   Listen
Off guard

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






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"Off guard" Quotes from Famous Books



... answer the telephone, and when she came back, she caught him off guard, and saw his face in repose. Henry wasn't aware of it; and when he heard her footsteps, he looked up with an instantaneous re-arrangement of his features. But Anna had seen, and Anna had understood; she sensed that Henry, for a generous purpose, had merely adopted ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall

... segundo. Now, Honeyman, you heard what he said. Billy dear, I won't rob you of this chance to stand a guard. McCann, have you got on your next list of supplies any jam and jelly for Sundays? You have? That's right, son—that saves you from standing a guard tonight. Officer, when you come off guard at 3.30 in the morning, build the cook up a good fire. Let me see; yes, and I'll detail young Tom Quirk and The Rebel to grease the wagon and harness your mules before starting in the morning. I want to impress it on your mind, McCann, that ...
— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams

... know just how to act when introduced to a chambermaid, or to the heiress of a mechanics' boarding house. His other self—the self which recognized the equality of all men—would have managed the thing better, if it hadn't been caught off guard and robbed of its chance. The young girl paid no attention to the bow, but put out her hand frankly and gave the stranger a friendly shake ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... commissariat. The rainy season had just set in. "As for the negroes," said Mr. Klynhaus, the last planter with whom they parted, "you may depend on never seeing a soul of them, unless they attack you off guard; but the climate, the climate, will murder you all." Bringing with them constitutions already impaired by the fevers and dissipation of Paramaribo, the poor boys began to perish long before they began to fight. Wading in water all day, hanging their hammocks over water at night, ...
— Black Rebellion - Five Slave Revolts • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... you. Our poultry-man; and if you will sup with us to-night, when you come off guard, you shall eat ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various



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