What is "flat-footed"

Usage examples of "flat-footed".

Anjou and Perique had caught Harkland and Klauder flat-footed, as flatfooted as was possible among these irregular rocks.

Sutton was keeping the best fliers in his squadron, the ones who could do witchcraft with their Speeds, who never got caught flat-footed.

It stopped Borger, that punch did, stopped him flat-footed for only an instant, but that instant was enough.

Kane landed flat-footed, the double impacts jacking both knees into his lower belly and sending streaks of agony scorching through his ankles and into the Achilles tendons.

You come out with some of the goddamndest flat-footed opinions with respect to matters which you haven't studied and have had no experience, basing your opinions on casual gossip, newspaper stories, unrelated individual data out of matrix, armchair extrapolation, and plain misinformation-unsuspected because you haven't attempted to verify it.

Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children—.

It was only during the last strain of the galliard that she spun violently away from him into a jagged, blazing scurry of half-steps that carried her as far as the dais—himself three floundering beats behind her—then wheeling back to end with a high jump like a cry of rage, and a reverence so dazzlingly scornful that Farrell stood flat-footed, feeling as if every woman he had ever known, beginning with his mother, were laughing at him in the curve of her arm.

This second broadcast had caught him as flat-footed as the first, because he thought he had nullified this sort of thing.

Viola is as black as Bertie Orbic is round, as thin as Helen Arches is flat-footed.

A saddle shoe lay on its side beneath the chair and another stood flat-footed under the table.