divert

Related to divert: diverticulosis

divert (someone or something) from (someone or something)

To induce someone or something to change course or direct their attention to something else. Try to divert the cars from the main road onto the side street if you can. Good luck diverting the kids away from cartoons so that they'll do their homework.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

divert someone or something from someone or something

to turn someone or something aside or away from someone or something. We could not divert his attention from his mother. I could not divert the woman from her interest in the book.
See also: divert
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • a whack at (something)
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • accompanied by
  • accompanied by (someone or something)
  • accompany
  • a crack at (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
The MEN previously reported Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport was forced to divert ambulances twice during a weekend earlier in December.
After the captain became incapacitated early in the flight, the First Officer issued an emergency call and safely diverted the aircraft to Kuwait," Etihad said in a statement.
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After a 30-minute flight, I was safe on deck, at which point I was informed that I had been diverted because my tailhook point had hit something other than the flight deck; tailhook damage was suspected.
And on Saturday night a New York-bound jet turned around over the Atlantic and diverted to Dublin.
Sources said two flights from Delhi were diverted on Tuesday because of VIP movement.
She said: "The plane was diverted for purely precautionary reasons.
These include setting escalation figures which must be met before hospitals can divert patients to other units.
Its design allows users to easily divert pneumatically conveyed materials to bulk storage bins, scale hoppers, process hoppers and more.
Also, approval has been given to increase the recycling goal to divert 50 percent of debris from landfill.
She then said that if they did not settle down, the flight would be diverted. Half an hour later, the captain reaffirmed to Tsikhiseli that he would indeed divert the plane if they did not drop the matter.
Her medication was packed in the hold of the plane and the captain decided to divert to the nearest airport.
Only then did Dash-3 realize that his fuel had dwindled below bingo state, and he asked the flight lead how far it was to the divert field.