<i>alsoi> 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.
<i><i>VERBi>: i>be<i> <i>V-edi>, <i>Vi> <i>ni>, <i>Vi> <i>ni> i>from<i> <i>ni>, also i>be<i> <i>V-edi> i>into<i> <i>ni>/<i>-ingi>i>