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"flat footed" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone who is clumsy, slow to react, or ineffective in a particular situation. For example: "John arrived at the meeting flat footed and unprepared, leaving his colleagues to pick up the slack."
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Stand under the basket like you're going to shoot a flat footed lay-up (a flat footed layup is a lay-up you shoot standing flat footed and not jumping).
"We don't want to be caught flat footed".
The U.S. was caught flat footed by Iran's revolution.
The Coakley campaign has been caught flat footed by the populist outrage over health care reform.
Don't be "flat" footed.
Don't land flat footed.
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This giddying turnabout has caught the experts flat-footed.
His pass along the ground caught England's defenders flat-footed.
EA: Wii Caught Us Flat-Footed [Next Gen].
At first, television caught Republicans flat-footed.
Walking flat-footed creates loud thumps.
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