![]() ![]() All of those matches refer to baseball, and specifically to base runners, not batters or fielders. Google Books finds a total of five matches for flat-footed in the sense of "off-guard or unprepared" from the period 1911–1912-but nothing earlier. McConnell, of the Bisons, he never actively opposed it. Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1994) dates the adjective flat in this sense to 1832–1833:įlat adj. English slang, the earliest slang meaning of the term flat-footed seems to have occurred as an extension of flat in the sense of broke, penniless, or destitute. Was baseball the sport in which the later usage of the expression was first used, making it an AmE Idiom?ĭictionary coverage of the slang term 'flat-footed' ![]() Is there evidence (I couldn't find any) that flat-footed meant unprepared as early as the 18th century? Later, this term was used to describe a runner not on his toes and left at the mark when the foot race began, and eventually generalized to mean anyone
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