throw off
Verb
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Verb
- (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.
- (idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
- The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results.
- To expel, reject, or renounce.
- To give forth in an unpremeditated manner.
- (expel) chuck off
- Spanish: librarse de, deshacerse de, dar esquinazo a
- French: mettre dedans, foirer
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