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Flat-footed   /flæt-fˈʊtɪd/   Listen
Flat-footed

adjective
1.
With feet flat on the ground; not tiptoe.
2.
Unprepared and unable to react quickly.
3.
Having broad flat feet that usually turn outward.
4.
Without reservation.






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"Flat-footed" Quotes from Famous Books



... way down the winding staircase from the upper deck, dropped flat-footed on the asphalt pavement, turned his collar up, leaned into the gust of wind from the South, and swung into the cross-current ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... went to the tent to wake Katz!" Tommy chuckled, "and saw him sneaking away making flat-footed for the hills!" ...
— Boy Scouts on the Great Divide - or, The Ending of the Trail • Archibald Lee Fletcher

... would be pretty good campaign work if he was the hypocrite I took him to be, from his stuff in the Sentinel. But if he's on the level, as you think he is, there's a chance—don't you see there's a chance that he'd come out flat-footed for the enforcement of the law? And if he did!... Child, can you see what would happen if ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.

... honest clay good enough for yer now? I knows wots the matter wiv you, Billy Jones! You've got a weather-heye on the Quarter Deck you 'ave. You fink you're agoin' to be a blighted perishin' orficer you do! Yus, you flat-footed matlot—not even a blasted tiffy you ain't, and you buys a blighted baccy-pouch and yaller baccy and fag-pipers, like a Snottie, an' reckons you's on the 'igh road to be a bloomin' Winnie Lloyd Gorgeous Orficer. 'And ...
— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren

... do you when you quarrel all the time you're together? She's declared herself already on this proposition—told the deputies flat-footed that she wouldn't tell them anything and would help her boys to escape in any way she could. You're just like a kid showing off his muscle before a little ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine


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