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The phrase "throwing him off" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation that disrupts someone's regular routine, plan, or thought process. For example, "The sudden announcement of a surprise test threw him off and he had to quickly rearrange his schedule."
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And that was the second way in which we hindered Livingstone: by throwing him off balance.
He most likely did not expect the firefighter who came sprinting after him, throwing him off balance.
All the practice in the world, though, may not matter if he cannot control the dialogue and keep Mr. Obama from throwing him off his plan.
Cameron is far from broken by the side of the road, but the last 18 months have shown how Ukip's centrifugal force is throwing him off course.
Thalberg didn't play around with a man like Mankiewicz; after throwing him off "A Night at the Opera," he didn't use him again.
The last contestant, Christian, stood in the hallway, just outside the door, so he wouldn't have to face the class — although one of his classmates managed to edge into Christian's line of sight long enough to try throwing him off with a rude gesture.
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But life or rather a young secretary intrudes, throwing him off-kilter and sending him blissfully dreaming, including on a runaway bed that — as it tools along a country road with two snuggling escapees — transforms into a paragon of the Surrealist imagination and a delirious manifestation of that old, promising phrase: free love.
This threw him off completely.
That rat tail threw him off balance.
"Just throw him off," says Mat.
In the many negotiations with landowners, no one throws him off balance or outbluffs him.
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