divert from
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. The noisy repairs happening above us constantly diverted my attention from the meeting.
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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.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
Southbound Q2 and Q3 will
divert from Market Street via Pilgrim Street and Swan House to Dean Street; please use stops on Market Street instead of Grey Street.
A Qantas Airways aircraft aborted two landings on Monday (29 September), and was forced to
divert from Auckland to Christchurch, New Zealand.
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