catch (someone) cold

American

to surprise someone with an event, a question, or a piece of news they are not expecting.

You caught me cold with this news - I didn't know anything about it.

• make a weekend of it
• make a world of difference
• make believe
• make blood boil
• make blood run cold
• make both ends meet
• make common cause
• make common cause with
• make common cause with someone
• make day
• make do and mend
• make easy meat of
• make easy meat of someone
• make easy meat of something
• make eat their words
• make eat words
• make ends meet
• make eyes at
• make eyes at someone
• make faces
• make feel small
• make flesh crawl
• make flesh creep
• make free with
• make free with something