blindside

About 1,200 faculty participated in the anonymous survey, and their responses revealed a culture in which professors say they are blindsided by major decisions.

“Honestly, it was a stab in the back,” said one Republican aide of the rebuke from Delta, which “blindsided” Kemp and lawmakers.

The task force was blindsided, according to people familiar with the views of its members.

Cuomo’s office has asked prominent state Democratic lawmakers not to blindside them with calls for resignation, a person familiar with the request said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

James, sounding blindsided, called the NBA’s pursuit of an All-Star Game in Atlanta a “slap in the face” after previous plans for Indianapolis were scrapped.

Zachary Karabell says our complacency will blindside us, just as it did when Lehman Brothers collapsed.