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