blindsided

After that, the roles started to cool off a bit (see: the Lifetime film Blindsided), and then came True Detective.

Dehlin was similarly blindsided by the threat of excommunication.

Cantor and his team, assuming a relatively easy victory was imminent, were blindsided last Tuesday in a double-digit loss.

“I was blindsided,” he told reporters, as he denied any “knowledge or involvement” in the incident.

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told CBS he was blindsided by the move.