off her guard

Questions about off her guard

What does off her guard mean?

off her guard means "not prepared or vigilant".

What is another word for off her guard?

Close synonyms include napping, off-guard, off guard, off one's guard, off his guard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is off her guard a common word?

off her guard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.