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Definition of Off your guard
1. Adjective. Not prepared or vigilant. "Found him off his guard"
Similar to: Unready
Lexicographical Neighbors of Off Your Guard
Literary usage of Off your guard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Friends' Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1859)
"If they are refractory, do not be thrown off your guard, and by an exhibition of
ill temper become almost unmanageable yourself ; but by uniform kindness ..."
2. The Civilian's South India: Some Places and People in Madras by " "Civilian (1921)
"You must therefore never be off your guard. Our ancestors firmly believed that
malaria was induced by drinking bad water, by sitting in a certain kind of ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"This is apt to throw you off your guard and render you somewhat confused and
uncertain of hand and vision. The quail's flight is very swift, ..."
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