Mr. Kerry himself took part in trying to throw reporters off the trail.

Whoever she was, he hoped to throw her off the trail.

She could have been trying to throw us off the trail.

"What if our guy is just trying to make it look like somebody else is responsible to throw us off the trail?"

The poor quality of the novel may have thrown me off the trail.

The course was intended to throw chance followers off the trail; and it succeeded, in a sense.

Then came the incident that threw Harry off the trail.

I wish now I'd thrown him off the trail,' said the first.

But they have not yet, after hundreds of dilutions, succeeded in throwing the snake off the trail.

Anything to throw the police off the trail would help.