back foot

The characters in these households are often parents caught on the back foot.

It put Onana on the back foot from the first moment.

“They’re on the back foot now, but they know armed struggle will have its time again,” he said.

India were immediately on the back foot with Shubman Gill pinned lbw by Henry for two, skipper Rohit Sharma fell to Kyle Jamieson for 15 and the crowd was silenced by another of Phillips' one-handed acrobatic efforts.

But he also says that "Trump's drastic actions have put the rest of the world on the back foot" because of the US economy's strength relative to most of its trading partners.