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bewilder
vs
pull the rug (out) from under
bewilder
verb
To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices.
pull the rug (out) from under
How often have the words
bewilder
and
pull the rug (out) from under
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)