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Meanings of red herring in English
False clue that misleads or distracts attention away from a relevant or important question.
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Synonyms
Examples for "smoked herring"
Examples for "smoked herring"
1
In our house we ate stuffed cabbage and smoked herring.
2
And it smoked and burned till it smoked that old Alligator to smoked herring!
3
He could spare a sixpence if he made his dinner on a potato and a smoked herring.
4
I'm as dry as a smoked herring.
5
Today they also come with a smoked herring pâté that we would have preferred to have more texture.
A first draft of a prospectus; must be clearly marked to indicate that parts may be changed in the final prospectus.
Usage of red 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
The nerdosphere consensus was that it was a red herring.' Nelson hesitated.
4
But I think that was always a bit of a red herring.
5
Woodrow Wilson's diagnosis of the red herring in politics is obviously correct.
6
Gender was a red herring, but it was also a powerful lens.
7
The breaking of traffic lights by some cyclists is a red herring.
8
His first sign of recovery was his craving for a red herring.
9
But it was a red herring that was dangled by senior clerics.
10
The hunt for the Table Tennis Ring was a vivid red herring.
11
And here-hereit is neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring.
12
Greenhouse gas emissions are also, in this case, a red herring.
13
The Conyers incident wasn't the only red herring in this case.
14
In particular the rivalry with Messi remains a colossal red herring.
15
The cover of the fourth War on Drugs album is a red herring.
16
Boris Johnson's kipper is very much a red herring, Brussels says.
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Red herring through the time
Red herring across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common