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• n  a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
• v  wander from a direct or straight course

• Sidetracked by New York's Al Smith, McAdoo repaid that score and formed a second political alliance eight years later by helping to sidetrack Al Smith for Franklin Roosevelt at .
• Speaker Rayburn openly opposed federal aid to teachers but loyally promised not to sidetrack the bill.
• LIN: After the Vietnam Veterans Memorial I went right back to Yale to study architecture because I didn't want the Memorial to sidetrack me from my other interests.

• siding
• railroad siding
• turnout
• depart
• digress
• straggle

News & Articles

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• (VIDEO) Metal artist adds Cinderella's carriage to long list of projects
  Despite sidetrack, Lillo's still focused on finishing his Jesse James Theme Park
  July 7, 2013 - Mankato Free Press

Quotes

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• John Kerry in San Francisco Chronicle
  Kerry said he was struck by the determination of President Asif Ali Zardari and army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to "crack down on any entity that tries to sidetrack the country from its democratic path and pursue the road of terror."
• Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan in AFP
  The slump in oil prices and the global recession will not sidetrack us from providing the budget without any cuts,Sheikh Khalifa said.
• Bill Frist in WCNC (subscription)
  I'm trying to move to a qualified nominee, Priscilla Owen and we hear these attempts to delay even right now, to sidetrack, to even consider somebody else and that's the challenge,Frist said. "That's why we're on the floor of the United...