throw (someone) off the trail
throw (someone) off the trail
To misdirect someone away from their point of pursuit; to steer someone's investigation or suspicions in the wrong direction. The mafia accountant had been throwing the authorities off the trail of the mob's money laundering for years. My husband has some suspicions about our affair, but the trip I'm taking for work will throw him off the trail.
See also: off, throw, trail
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- put (one) off the track
- put (one) off the trail
- put off the track
- throw (one) off the scent
- throw (one) off the track
- throw off the track
- throw someone off the scent
- get someone's dander up, to
- get in wrong with (someone)
- get in wrong with someone