throw off

See also: throw-off

English

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.

Translations

lose a pursuer

Spanish: librarse de, deshacerse de, dar esquinazo a

skew by introducing errors or inaccuracies

French: mettre dedans (fr), foirer (fr)

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