flat-footed - significado y definición. Qué es flat-footed
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Qué (quién) es flat-footed - definición

SUPERFAMILY OF FLIES
Phoroidea; Flat-footed fly; Flat-footed flies

flat-footed      
¦ adjective
1. having flat feet.
2. informal clumsy.
3. informal unprepared; off guard.
Derivatives
flat-footedly adverb
flat-footedness noun
flat-footed      
1.
If you are flat-footed, the arches of your feet are too low.
ADJ: v-link ADJ, ADJ n, ADJ after v
2.
If you describe a person or action as flat-footed, you think they are clumsy, awkward, or foolish.
...flat-footed writing...
The government could be caught flat-footed.
ADJ: ADJ n, v-link ADJ, ADJ after v [disapproval]
Flat-footed      
·adj Firm-footed; determined.
II. Flat-footed ·adj Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep.

Wikipedia

Platypezoidea

The Platypezoidea are a superfamily of true flies of the section Aschiza. Their closest living relatives are the Syrphoidea, which, for example, contain the hoverflies. Like these, the adults do not burst open their pupal cases with a ptilinum when hatching, thus the Aschiza do not have the inverted-U-shaped suture above the antennae. They are, however, muscomorphs, thus have a particular type of pupal case resembling a rounded barrel and called puparium.

Ejemplos de uso de flat-footed
1. Although not entirely unexpected, it appeared to catch Beijing organizers flat–footed.
2. Cook, flat–footed, drove and the ball cannoned from his bat to splatter the stumps.
3. America‘s Department of Veterans Affairs has been caught flat–footed by the flood of sufferers.
4. Big–hitting Paradorn found his range at the crucial moment to leave Henman looking flat–footed.
5. They soon learned to artfully dodge our firepower while finding our Achilles heel – and catching us flat–footed.