Sentence examples for perpetually wrong-foots from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Wrong foot.

If you start something on the wrong foot, you start badly.

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It perpetually wrong-foots you.

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His tone can be alarmingly inconsequential, as if the reader is there to be perpetually wrong-footed.

As ever, Tarantino wrong-foots us.

Race, gender and genre were integral in the tone, as were perceived views of the two (Swift perpetually wronged and Minaj perpetually angry).

There is always a desire to wrong-foot the viewer.

They are off on the wrong foot.

Sherlock Holmes regularly wrong-footed Inspector Lestrade.

I've been wrong-footed by it.

Jenkins got off on the wrong foot.

Sometimes she simply gets off on the wrong foot.

The term, they explained, was to "wrong-foot" your opponent.

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