throw off balance
Verb
Meaning
throw off balance (third-person singular simple present throws off balance, present participle throwing off balance, simple past threw off balance, past participle thrown off balance)
(idiomatic) To unsettle, to catch by surprise.
Synonyms
faze
disorient
rattle
befuddle
perturb
discompose
disconcert
unnerve
unsettle
discomfit
fluster
discountenance
discombobulate
flummox
thunderstrike