Backfoot
"Backfoot" in a Sentence (3 examples)
ruSSians are on the backfoot.
Hamlet is bitter, evasive, now backfooting them, now attacking, now genial - their job isn't going to be easy.
Koizumi's government has been backfooted by the indictment of Horie, the former CEO of Livedoor Co., on charges of violating securities regulations
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