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What (who) is sidetrack - definition
sidetrack
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Sidetrack (disambiguation); Sidetracks
¦ verb
1. distract from an immediate or important issue.
2. chiefly N. Amer. direct (a train) into a branch line or siding.
¦ noun chiefly N. Amer. a railway branch line or siding.
sidetrack
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Sidetrack (disambiguation); Sidetracks
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
Sidetrack
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Sidetrack (disambiguation); Sidetracks
·add. ·vt To transfer to a siding from a main line of track.
II. Sidetrack ·add. ·vt Hence, ·fig., to divert or reduce to a position or condition that is relatively secondary or subordinate in activity, importance, effectiveness, or the like; to switch off; to turn aside, as from a purpose.
Examples of use of sidetrack
1. But he said the agreement wouldn‘t sidetrack U.S. efforts to enforce sanctions adopted by the U.N.
2. Hamdan‘s lawyers said the law was not meant to sidetrack an existing challenge to the tribunals.
3. Republicans were mostly unified in their opposition to sidetrack the legislation, with four exceptions.
4. Johns said the permitting flap was probably another incident in a series of questionable activities meant to sidetrack her campaign.
5. "It would take a lot to sidetrack that ... it‘s not just to join the EU club, but in order to stay competitive in labor," he said.