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(verb) to wrong-foot someone means to manipulate the situation to make an innocent person look bad, guilty. or inept. Often used by sly people to deflect the blame they deserve onto someone else, or to win a promotion at work, or to steal someone else's mate by making their rival look less desireable.
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