扯远

to digress / to get sidetracked / to go off on a tangent

far / distant / remote / (intensifier in a comparison) by far / much (lower etc)

to distance oneself from (classical)

to pull / to tear / (of cloth, thread etc) to buy / to chat / to gossip / (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous / hokey

variant of 扯[che3] / to pull / to tear