sidetrack
verbverb [usually passive] sidetrack somebody (into doing something)Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they sidetrack he / she / it sidetracks past simple sidetracked -ing form sidetracking
jump to other results to make someone start to talk about or do something that is different from the main thing that they are supposed to be talking about or doing synonym distract I was supposed to be writing a letter but I got sidetracked. Don't be sidetracked into discussing individual cases.
See sidetrack in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary