wrongfoot meaning

• v. (wrongfoots, wrongfooting, wrongfooted)
  
  1 (Br.) to confuse and surprise someone, and to make things difficult by doing something unexpected: He wrongfooted me with that very personal question in the middle of my speech.
  
  2 (sports) to make an opponent think that you are going to hit or kick the ball in another direction

• Traders said the company was buying its own stock to wrongfoot speculators who bet the shares would fall.
• At Lyon, however, he seemed back on form, combining deft net play and searing groundstrokes to wrongfoot Safin.
• But South Korea's stance also reflects domestic politics : hawkishness gains votes and the northern threat can be used to wrongfoot critics of the government.
• He's full of fakes and with his technical skills, he can easily wrongfoot one or two defenders, " said Lierse coach Eric Gerets.
• Aminishiki is also known for employing " henka, " or sidestepping, to wrongfoot his opponents at the " tachi-ai " or initial charge.
• Vicky was included more in the episode, and it further delved into her personality, namely she differs vastly from Ellie Simm, Tom's previous girlfriend, who was depicted as more of a normal human being; Vicky was portrayed as more " flakey " and " insane " who would often wrongfoot Tom.
• The Downing Street memo was in fact just one of eight documents obtained by Smith which showed that President George W . Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed in April 2002 to invade Iraq; that they planned to " wrongfoot " Saddam Hussein to give them the excuse to do so; and that they used flights over the southern no-fly zone of Iraq to begin the air war against Iraq in May 2002, with " spikes of activity " which they hoped might provoke Iraq into reacting and giving them the excuse to go to war.

• "wrongfoot" meaning in Chinese: un. 不熟练的脚
• "wrongfoot" meaning in Japanese: {他動} :
• "wrongfoot" meaning in Russian: wrong-footгл. доставлять неприятности