📚 verb • entry_id 61345
take by surprise
Meanings (ES + gloss)
interprender
To occur to someone when unexpected; to surprise.
Both the South Korean government and US forces in the region appear to have been taken by surprise by Trump’s declared suspension of joint exercises.
Kazakhstan's shooting team was taken by surprise when a spoof national anthem from the film Borat was used at a medal ceremony in Kuwait.
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