wrong-foot

Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an old snakeskin.

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

Although markets had largely priced in a quarter-point rise by the ECB, the Bank of England move wrong-footed markets.

calling for a single state on all the land encompassing Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, would be wrong-footed.

As it happens, Brown was not the only politician wrong-footed by the third quarter growth figures.

Then, dismayed and wrong-footed by Mr Mubarak's defiant refusal to stand down on Thursday night, President Obama sharpened his tone.

But in his first four weeks Mr Franceschini has twice wrong-footed his opponent on issues of substance, not image.

Those 'professionals' in the market continue to be wrong-footed.

That queers the pitch for foreign investors, who have been wrong-footed on several occasions this year.

Having described the industry's threats of pulling investments as "balderdash" and "bunkum, " he was wrong-footed when they did so.

This wrong footed managers who were focused on fundamental bottom-up analysis of companies.

The swift turnaround in sterling post the MPC minutes suggests that the market has been wrong-footed.

That has wrong-footed many bankers, who prefer to crunch numbers to assess their future.

So why are we tackling our economic problems in a manner that is shortsighted and wrong-footed?