throw off
- (verb): To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
- (verb): To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.
- (verb): Of a horse, to eject its rider.
- (verb): To expel, reject, or renounce.
- (verb): To give forth in an unpremeditated manner.
- I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.
- The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results.