That caught me way out of left field

This one is from Ed Gainey’s lips, who is the mayor of Pittsburgh. He was appearing on the City Cast Pittsburgh podcast and received a question that he didn’t expect. His response was this nice mash up of “came out of left field” (unexpected) and “caught off guard” (unprepared, unwary). Might qualify as a congruent conflation as both expressions concern something unexpected. A big thank you once again to Mike Kovacs for hearing this one and sending it in.