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blind-sided

verb as in attack by surprise

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Mr. McCarthy, California Republican, who was blind-sided by Ms. Boebert’s impeachment resolution, urged her to take a more thorough approach.

The remarks emerged on Sunday morning and somewhat blind-sided the team.

From BBC

P&O said redundancy packages on offer would reflect the lack of notice, but trade unions and even politicians seem to have been blind-sided by this.

From BBC

The paper also reports that Sue Gray, the senior civil servant overseeing an investigation into the Whitehall partygate allegations, felt “completely blind-sided” by the revelations and felt Downing Street staff were hiding information about parties held there.

“But it is not a done deal,” she added, “and Democrats have been blind-sided by their own apathy in the past.”

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