But only because I have been doing my best to keep that particular department off your trail.

Without taking my eyes off the trail behind us, I followed.

He did the two men to throw us off his trail.

"They might have come here just to throw everyone off their trail."

At the top of the hill, she took a long look around, then led the way off the trail, back into the trees.

Anything to throw the police off the trail would help.

Then, a little way off the trail, she saw it.

"Do you know of anything that's going on that we could use to pull the police off our trail?"

By that time we've got to be three miles or more away, then we're off the trail and into the woods.

Yet Tom did not want to call the giant off the trail.