catch with their pants down

Meaning

1. catch sb with their pants down

   to arrive or do sth when sb is not expecting it and not ready, especially when they are in an embarrassing situation

In the movies · 3

• Restaurants, on the other hand, you catch with their pants down.Pulp Fiction1994
• Don't let them catch you with your pants down.Zombieland2009
• They ain't gonna catch me with my pants down!Miracle Mile1989

From the same entry

• catch your breath
• catch your death
• catch eye
• catch it
• catch napping
• catch on the hop
• catch red - handed
• off balance
• be in a cleft stick
• the early bird catches the worm
• catch fancy
• catch on the raw