Throw (one) off the track spoken language verb phrase
To distract someone from their objective, stream of thoughts, or a sequence of events.
These criminals really know how to throw the investigators off the track by changing their ID usually.
He threw the police off the track by giving the wrong testimony.
Her question threw me off the track and I forgot what I was going to present next.
The interruption threw me off the track and I forget what I put into the soup.
To give someone false information to prevent them from discovering the truth
It means people are easily deceived or misled, which makes them the main source of income for others.
To deceive one.
If you say that you tell a (little) white lie, you mean that you tell a harmless line in order to be polite and avoid making someone upset.
1. To guide someone in the incorrect direction; to make someone lost or in the wrong spot.
2. To misdirect one into error.
3. To have a negative effect on someone; to influence someone to make a bad decision.
The verb "throw" should be conjugated with its tense.