lead away

I can understand why they did not throw too many players forward in the second half when they were 2-1 up, but they will be unhappy about throwing a lead away.

It contains grains of truth, but those grains of truth are exaggerated beyond the point of usefulness, even so far as to lead away from the truth.

Songer's prediction: Palace fans are unhappy enough as it is, even before they threw the lead away against us on Monday.

As in every Cornell box, all paths lead away from the present and into the mists of the imagination.

Thomas read that in Kingston, Jamaica, Shericka Jackson had just wrested the world lead away with a time of 21.71, 0.15 faster than the American.