[VN] [usuallypassive] to make sb start to talk about or do sth that is different from the main thing that they are supposed to be talking about or doing:
I was supposed to be writing a letter but I'm afraid I got sidetracked. * Don't be sidetracked into discussing individual cases.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for sidetrack is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sidetrack a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sidetrack is tagged as verb.
Does sidetrack appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — sidetrack appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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