Sentence examples similar to could wrong from inspiring English sources

A snap election could wrong-foot the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which may have expected the LDP to delay.

But Israel could wrong-foot Hizbullah by offering to vacate the Shebaa Farms, a patch of land taken by Israel during the war of 1967 and claimed both by Syria and Lebanon.

Or laughable, depending on your tolerance for this creaky old-school whodunit fare; it wasn't exactly The Killing or Broadchurch, but the aptly titled Curtain did provide its own surprises – not least when Poirot, having shaved his top lip so that again he could wrong-foot his quarry, ripped off his fake waxed moustache.

Everything that could go wrong went wrong.

"It could be wrong place, wrong time.

What could go wrong?

It could be wrong.

Everything could go wrong.

It could go wrong.

What could be wrong?

Plenty could go wrong.