SIDETRACK


Meaning of SIDETRACK in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

get

But I think you're right about soaps recently getting sidetracked into men and men's problems.

I once wanted to be a meteorologist but got sidetracked into this.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A dozen of the ducks were sidetracked to Northern California, where they became the basis for contemporary duck farms.

Along the way, they intend to sidetrack some of President Bush's most controversial proposals, while compromising on others.

But he was by now too aroused to be sidetracked.

He hovered for a moment, but his mind was too full to be sidetracked.

Kemp and Gore served in Congress together and had seen their presidential ambitions sidetracked in 1988.

Only the really great champions refuse to be sidetracked by any of these minor problems.

The only way to keep a governor from becoming senator is to sidetrack him off into the presidency.

Without this the purchaser may be sidetracked into calculations on a whole host of other matters which are not strictly relevant.

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