side-track

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Lots of amusing attempts to side-track things being demonstrated, even.

9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing 2009
When the engine was switching cars on to the side-track, Johnny crept along the side of the train.

THE APOSTATE 2010
It is an easy side-track from the soggy-saltine smell and it fills me often.

When the Lights Go Out « A Fly in Amber 2010
Then he plodded down the road himself, to the water tank, where half a dozen empties lay on a side-track waiting for the up freight.

Chapter 18 2010
When the engine was switching cars on to the side-track, Johnny crept along the side of the train.

THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London 2010
He had reference to troop-trains on the side-track.

Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune 2010
If you see a student walking by, they will often hop over it or side-track around it.

Alex Budman: A Chilly Start to May Alex Budman 2011
She rams the van off down a side-track and just about totals it in a tree.

Four Queens Mark Staniforth 2011
Just try to side-track him, that is all, and you'll think the Day of Judgment and all God's blastingness has hit the camp in one chunk!

LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010
One more whammy: women are the ones that either side-track or sacrifice their careers which often results in less present and future income as well as smaller pensions.

Maddy Dychtwald: Will You Outlive Your Marriage? 2010