catch napping

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catch napping

verb catches napping · catching napping · caught napping

idiomatic, transitive To surprise; to take advantage of the lack of watchfulness of. Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride. If the Colonel Morales was to be caught at all he must be caught napping, and, as they knew, he usually s

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verb to surprise

Français	prendre au dépourvu, prendre de court, prendre sans vert

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@misc{catch_napping_2026,
  title = {catch napping},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/catch%20napping},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}