Synonyms for off guard
off guard

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1. off guardadjective

   Antonyms:
   on guard

2. off guardadjective

   His sudden appearance at the office caught her completely off guard.

   Antonyms:
   on guard

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1. napping, off-guard(a), off guard(p), off one's guard(p), off his guard, off her guard, off your guardadjective

   not prepared or vigilant

   "the blow caught him napping"; "caught in an off-guard moment"; "found him off his guard"

   Antonyms:
   ready

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1. Todd Rosenbluth:

   If investors had been concerned about possible Brexit, they would have shifted away from developed international equity products last week. The data confirms that some investors were caught off guard, however, domestic equity outflows continued. But in the prior week, large- and mid-caps had the greatest redemptions. This time it was multi-cap and the 'other' style. 'Other' is a catch-all group of lots of investment styles.

2. Marco Rubio:

   Well, I had hoped in this process we would have -- the voters would wake up and see what Donald Trump is, a con artist, and I think we were all caught off guard by how much the attention in coverage has really lifted him.

3. Jenn Varian:

   Because of the rapid warm up of about 10 degrees a day, this prevents residents and tourists alike from acclimating to the hot temperatures, and unless they're paying close attention to the forecast, can catch them off guard when recreating outside this weekend.

4. Stephan Lange:

   This is a big crisis that has certainly got the attention of top (Boehringer) management, big companies like predictability, they like planning, and the one thing that throws us off guard here most is that over the last year, we had to reset expectations multiple times.

5. Colleen Distin:

   It's very emotional, it kind of caught me off guard.