flat-footed

Instead, get the general area of the top half of your foot to land first, almost flat-footed is fine.

The only exceptions, oddly, might be the iPod nano and the iPod touch, which caught the competition completely flat-footed.

The railroads got caught flat-footed there and have been scrambling to increase capacity for crude-by-rail.

In all fairness, if you don't anticipate a switch many years before you have to make it, you could get caught flat-footed.

Had that caught Amazon flat-footed, it could have decimated their book business.

Interview questions often lurk in the language’s darker corners, but you’ll be less likely to be caught flat-footed if you’ve worked through all the chapters recently.

At some point in the next 5-10 years, I think the bottom drops out of that market and Google gets caught flat-footed.

A problem we used to have, however, is people engaging in grandstanding and irresponsible disclosure, leaving users insecure and catching the industry flat-footed.

However, notice that if this article is true, then it also implies that Google was caught completely flat-footed by the iPhone, CEO on the board of Apple or no.

As someone who watches unregulated taxis brazenly evade flat-footed police on a daily basis, take my word for it: you're better off with the government having an iron fist in this case.

BB was caught flat-footed and took years to catch up on the UI and form factor, by which time they were too late to catch up on the apps, which is probably what ultimately killed them.

Oh, I'm sure you've seen lurid tales of mysterious, unnamed sources who will regale about how flat-footed Qualcomm -- one of the largest ARM processor makers in the world, closely intertwined with ARM's 64-bit efforts -- was with Apple's introduction.