Polish English Dictionary
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odwracać czyjąś uwagę in English:
1. 
distract attention
2. divert someone's attention
English word "odwracać czyjąś uwagę"(divert someone's attention) occurs in sets:
Angielski biznesowy3. to divert sb's attention from
English word "odwracać czyjąś uwagę"(to divert sb's attention from) occurs in sets:
archibald 5.14. sidetrack
We were making good progress until we got sidetracked by this new development last week, and nothing has happened since then.
The students sidetracked their teacher into talking about her hobby Let's not get sidetracked.
5. distract
Don't distract me from studying.
I was distracted from reading by the noise.
She keeps distracting me.
stop distracting me I'm trying to finish my essay
Philosophical arguments for God could actually distract your attention from God Himself.
Tom admits that playing video games sometimes distracts him from his homework.
you don't want to get distracted
Don't distract her (from her studies). He tried to distract attention from his own illegal activities.
Try not to distract the other students.
What kind of things distract your attention? Strange noises distract my attention.
She is so beautiful that she distracts men`s attantion from their work,
Now people are so distracted by their personal financial problems.
One of the girls distracted the shop assistant while the other stole cosmetics from the counter.
distract somebody's attention
In order to distract the others, we brought up this irrelevant issue as a red herring.
