Idiom
throw off the trail
Meaning
To misguide.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He lied to throw the police off the trail.”
“The spy left fake footprints in the snow to throw the guards off the trail.”
“By planting misleading evidence at the crime scene, the clever thief successfully threw the investigators off the trail for several weeks.”
Examples
simple
“He lied to throw the police off the trail.”
contextual
“The spy left fake footprints in the snow to throw the guards off the trail.”
complex
“By planting misleading evidence at the crime scene, the clever thief successfully threw the investigators off the trail for several weeks.”
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