(idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.
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(idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
"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 that no-one will find us except the tinkers, for we can't…
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(transitive) Of a horse, to eject its rider.
"Well," he said as they reached the livery, "we could go north or throw them off our trail. That would add a day to our trip, though."
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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