taken off guard

When Joe Biden made the historic decision in July to step aside as the Democratic Party's 2024 nominee, Donald Trump was clearly taken off guard.

It might not be fair to call it an “upset,” but even Stone appeared to be taken off guard by her win for lead actress for “Poor Things” over “Killers of the Flower Moon” trailblazer Gladstone.

“I was completely taken off guard, but it was a good harbinger of what was to come.”

"That b***h said to me at the end, 'How can we do better?' And I was so taken off guard that I didn't say what I should have said," he recalled.

“And I was so taken off guard that I didn’t say what I should have said.”