red herring in English

noun
1
a dried smoked herring, which is turned red by the smoke.
In the next few decades these kippers almost completely took over the market from the old salty red herrings .
2
something, especially a clue, that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting.
the book is fast-paced, exciting, and full of red herrings
noun
    smoked herring

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "red herring" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "red herring", or refer to the context using the word "red herring" in the English Dictionary.

1. The subsidies debate is a red herring.

2. Neither fish nor good red herring

3. Female speaker I think it's a red herring.

4. Neither fish nor flesh ( nor good red herring ).

5. 2 Neither fish nor good red herring

6. The holocaust is an immense and vile red herring.

7. He deliberately threw a red herring into the conversation.

8. According to Mattel, antitrust issues were a red herring.

9. 12 Female speaker I think it's a red herring.

10. A red herring swallowed one then there were three.

11. 6 He deliberately threw a red herring into the conversation.

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13. 15 The holocaust is an immense and vile red herring.

14. The Prime Minister's reference to unemployment was a red herring.

15. A red herring swallowed one, and then there were three.

16. Atonality would break the rasa and be a red herring

17. 13 According to Mattel, antitrust issues were a red herring.

18. She was drawing a red herring across the path on purpose.

19. A red herring can also be used as a form of false foreshadowing.

20. This story is a red herring to divert public attention from this issue.

21. A red herring swallowed one, and the beatles 1 then there were three.

22. His critics say his emphasis on the past 10 years is a red herring.

23. As Dr Smith left he said that the inquiry was something of a red herring.

24. Whenever he got in a difficulty, he would pull a red herring across the track.

25. I like to imagine a world in which neither fish, flesh nor good red herring common.

26. 24 As Dr Smith left he said that the inquiry was something of a red herring.

27. 16 Meg's determination not to see her; her red herring about the mysterious proposal of marriage.

28. His racial theory was almost certainly a red herring, 5 but the notion of selective mate choice was not.

29. Mr. Renton I disagree with my hon. Friend about the agencies being neither fish nor fowl nor good red herring.

30. Look, the situation in French agriculture is just a red herring. We're here to discuss the situation in this country.

31. 25 Look, the situation in French agriculture is just a red herring. We're here to discuss the situation in this country.

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33. Arglebargle replied to vassils's topic in General Forum The discussion of RAAT vs UPNP is a bit of red herring with regards to sound quality though

34. However, in this cosmic game of whodunit, jumping to the conclusion that "another" comet was to blame for the 2009 impact turns out to have been a red herring.

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