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taken unawares
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taken unawares
ad-lib, astonished, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, extemporaneous, extemporized, haphazard, hasty, impromptu, improvised, makeshift, precipitate, rough-and-ready, snap, struck with surprise, surprised, taken aback, taken by surprise, tripped up, unarranged, unbegun, unconcocted, uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, unhatched, unmade, unmanufactured, unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unstudiedFor further exploring for "taken unawares" in Webster Dictionary Online