tear sb away
— Phrasal Verb with tear /teər/ verb (past tense tore, past participle torn)Definition
› to make someone stop doing something that they enjoy, in order to do something else: I'll bring Ian, if I can tear him away from his computer games.
(Definition of tear sb away from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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