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