SIDETRACK


Meaning of SIDETRACK in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ saɪdtræk ]

also side-track

( sidetracks, sidetracking, sidetracked)

If you are sidetracked by something, it makes you forget what you intended to do or say, and start instead doing or talking about a different thing.

He’d managed to avoid being sidetracked by Schneider’s problems...

The leadership moved to sidetrack the proposal...

They have a tendency to try to sidetrack you from your task.

VERB : be V-ed , V n , V n from n , also be V-ed into n / -ing

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