措手不及

On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1.

cuòshǒubùjí ㄘㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄡˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧˊ

    • no time to deal with it (idiom) caught unprepared

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