put someone off the track

put someone off the track
put someone off the track & put someone off the trail
to cause someone to lose a trail that is being followed. (See also put someone off the scent; throw someone off the track.) •

A distraction put me off the track and I almost got lost in the jungle.

I was following an escaped convict and something put me off the trail.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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