OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 25636

throw off

Meanings (ES + gloss)
dar esquinazo a • deshacerse de • librarse de
To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
"Then," said the tinker, "maybe the thing for us to do would be to go by queer ways, by bohereens and the like of that, and for us to get of the straight road to Rathmoon, the way…
I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.
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