put sb off their stride
(UK also put sb off their stroke)Definition
› to take someone's attention away from what they are doing, so that they stop doing it or do it wrong: He interrupted mid-speech and it put me off my stride.Creating a distraction
(Definition of put sb off their stride from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- distract verb
- distraction noun
- diversion noun (TAKING ATTENTION)
- divert verb (TAKE ATTENTION AWAY)
- escape noun (FORGET)
- put sb off (sth) phrasal verb
- put sb off their stride/stroke idiom
- sidetrack verb
- smoke and mirrors noun
- subject noun (AREA OF STUDY)
- take sb out of themselves phrasal verb
- take sb's mind off sth idiom
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