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Travel that is interesting enough and long enough away from your normal life that the distraction of the new sights, activities, food, drinks, culture etc cause you to break all your normal habits. Can be great for weights loss, clearing a foggy head due to stress or a high work load. Generally involves at least 4 weeks away to allow complete disconnection from ones normal regime, lifestyle and habits.
I really need some distraction travel to clear my head as I can't decide whether to quit this job and go full time on my sideline or not.
(noun)
a. A fictional creature capable of capturing the attention of all who see or hear it, who become powerless to turn away, even to the point of neglecting physical needs.
b. A person capable of trapping others in conversations and preventing them from ending, despite the desires of the other participants.
c. A person capable of changing the topic of any event or discussion without the notice of its participants until the original meaning is entirely lost to the dark pages of history.
a. The old king gave the same stern warning to each of his children: Heed not the endless tripe of the Distraction Beast in yonder wood lest ye lose all good sense and spend your final days with him in stupor - for no sensible man will come to your aid.
b. I vaguely remember starting a conversation about something, but then that distraction beast jumped in and next thing I knew it was Tuesday.
c. Until that distraction beast entered the conversation, we were actually getting somewhere talking about... about... whatever it was we were talking about.
A term for a device that can distract you that is also in the shape of a rectangle.
John: During the week, my phone is a nice little distraction rectangle.
Dylan: My favorite distraction rectangle is my Nintendo Switch.
Activities given to children which free up adults long enough to interact on a pleasant, social level, free from parenting.
Dinner is almost ready, I'll get out the distractables, you three hide on the patio!
When a woman recognizes she's obsessing and analyzing about a new guy too much, she goes on other dates to occupy her mind.
Jane told me she can't stop thinking about that bearded lumberjack, with the house on the lake she had coffee with. She's rereading texts, googling his name, stalking on Facebook, you name it! Realizing she's entering psycho mode, she's been right-swiping on Tinder day and night to line up Distraction Dick to keep herself sane.
Henry - “Shaz, we should go work in Charteris Bay for a distraction-free day”
Michael - “Can I come?”
Shannon - “No, if you look up Shaz’s ultimate distraction, Michael is the definition!”
Michael - “Gutted”
Distraction-Tactics
A plan, or series of actions to redirect someone’s attention.
“The government used distractics about aliens, to change the conversation”