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off-guard

 adjective
     
off-guard [not before noun]

catch/take somebody off-guard

to surprise someone by happening when they are not expecting something or prepared for it:
The sudden snow storm caught us all off-guard.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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