lose the plot
take one's eye off the ball
distance
contemplate one's navel
self-serving
when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp
straw man
stick to one's text
fence-sitting
look off
moony
above oneself
self-abnegation
potter
calculating
sit on one's hands
selflessly
tunnel vision
lost to the world
take the wind out of someone's sails
wander
make a better door than a window
overfocus
lose the thread
pretentiously
accismus
counter-intention
absentness
play dumb
stalking horse
self-forgetful
whoosh
bleh
absence
punt
shit or get off the pot
uninterest
centration
put aside
distractionism
hang upon
asleep at the switch
slum
underplay
get ahead of oneself
flaker
point-of-viewlessness
falter
tenuki
in another world
tergiversation
brain fart
focuslessness
lose it
in a world of one's own
in one's own world
ignoral
in one's own little world
prejudice
detraction
mental reservation
reservation
conflict
deny oneself
self-renunciation
ostrichism
turn to
abnegation
bat away
arriere pensee
downplaying
denial
preconception
bias
backpedaling
self-denial
monomania
frustration
divestiture
inconsideration
play fast and loose
set one's sights
thwarting
foiling
self-defeating
dismissal
disinterest
self-abnegatory
catch someone napping
appointment
compartmentalization
misattend
disregard
forget oneself
unseemliness
withdraw
get one's wires crossed
absently
drift off

English words for 'To lose sight of an important objective or principle; to act contrarily to one's own interests through concentrating on relatively unimportant matters.'

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