It is like a gang of thugs who waylay an old age pensioner and say that they are terribly sorry for her, but they must take her purse.
I am being waylaid into irrelevancies.
To haunt, to startle and waylay.
It is unhelpful to retreat into a knocking copy analysis that is waylaid by arguments that any taxation is bad taxation, and that less taxation must be good.
I shall try not to get waylaid on that point, though.
We should step up these patrols so that the police are in a position to waylay those who carry out these savage attacks.
We must not allow ourselves to be waylaid into thinking that preservation is the only satisfactory alternative.
They get together to cause that man's death; they waylay him, and they do in fact cause it.
