catch someone napping
slip through the cracks
withdraw
red herring
put aside
memory-hole
distracter
send to Coventry
misdirect
deter
fashy
whoosh
fall through the cracks
keep one's head down
diversionism
come-off
attention whore
get in someone's hair
misattend
pretermit
dissemble
misdirection
inattentively
absently
give someone the runaround
pass over
draw a veil over
absentmindedly
distraction
inconspicuously
abstractedly
cut someone cold
distractionism
crying
noodle
stand aside
abience
evasive
cut through
bag
distractionary
slighting
preoccupy
rid
wade in
distract
falter
get out of someone's hair
miss the boat
leave someone hanging