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Meanings of herring in English
Portuguese
arenque Usage of herring in English
1
A sign of voting practices to come, or merely a red herring?
2
The platform is a red herring: more serious is the budget cut.
3
They ate their herring in silence; the food stopped their mouths completely.
4
The moment the herring is taken out of the water it dies.
5
The nerdosphere consensus was that it was a red herring.' Nelson hesitated.
6
The herring fisheries of the North Sea then became of great importance.
7
But I think that was always a bit of a red herring.
8
Shoals of herring and great codfish swam between the tall arched windows.
9
Woodrow Wilson's diagnosis of the red herring in politics is obviously correct.
10
Gender was a red herring, but it was also a powerful lens.
11
The breaking of traffic lights by some cyclists is a red herring.
12
Formerly this was a good ground for the taking of large herring.
13
The herring is passed with what Dora regards as a lady-like gesture
14
His first sign of recovery was his craving for a red herring.
15
Next came jellied loaf of sorrel cream followed by fresh Baltic herring.
16
Schaunard and Colline enter with rolls and a herring for their meal.
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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