catch (someone) off guard
застать кого-либо врасплох (во время беспечности)
Leo, who was watching a DVD film, was caught off guard when his mother asked him about his homework.
Другие идиомы:
- catch (someone) in the act of (doing something)
- catch-as-catch-can
- catch (someone) off balance
- catch fire
- catch up with (someone or something)
- catch a cold
- catch one's death of cold
- catch sight of (someone or something)
- catch-22
- catch on
- catch (someone) napping
- catch up to (someone or something)
- catch (someone's) eye
- catch (someone) with their pants down
- catch forty winks