"alla sprovvista" meaning in Italian

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        "1": "at the lacking"
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      "expansion": "“at the lacking”",
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        "1": "at the lacking"
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      "expansion": "Literally, “at the lacking”",
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        "2": "prendre au dépourvu"
      },
      "expansion": "French prendre au dépourvu",
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  "etymology_text": "Literally, “at the lacking”. Compare French prendre au dépourvu.",
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        "1": "it",
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      },
      "expansion": "alla sprovvista",
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  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Hearing such basic history from the mouth of a U.S. president would catch many people off guard, I figured, and perhaps open their minds to other hard truths...\n(literally, “Hearing such basic facts from the mouth of an American president would have caught many listeners off guard, I figured, and maybe open their minds to other raw truths...”)",
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 15, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri",
          "text": "Sentire questi fatti così basilari dalla bocca di un presidente americano avrebbe colto molti ascoltatori alla sprovvista, immaginavo, e forse aperto la loro mente ad altre crude verità...",
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        "off guard"
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          "off guard",
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        "(idiomatic) off guard"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "alla sprovvista"
}

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      "args": {
        "1": "at the lacking"
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      "expansion": "“at the lacking”",
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      "args": {
        "1": "at the lacking"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “at the lacking”",
      "name": "lit"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "prendre au dépourvu"
      },
      "expansion": "French prendre au dépourvu",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “at the lacking”. Compare French prendre au dépourvu.",
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      },
      "expansion": "alla sprovvista",
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Hearing such basic history from the mouth of a U.S. president would catch many people off guard, I figured, and perhaps open their minds to other hard truths...\n(literally, “Hearing such basic facts from the mouth of an American president would have caught many listeners off guard, I figured, and maybe open their minds to other raw truths...”)",
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, chapter 15, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri",
          "text": "Sentire questi fatti così basilari dalla bocca di un presidente americano avrebbe colto molti ascoltatori alla sprovvista, immaginavo, e forse aperto la loro mente ad altre crude verità...",
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        "off guard"
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          "off guard"
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        "(idiomatic) off guard"
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  "word": "alla sprovvista"
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