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Definition of the day : « red herring »
- noun misleading clue
- No; honor would not do: it was only a red herring trailed across the scent.
- Extract from : « Old Mole » by Gilbert Cannan
- After all, she was merely "a red herring drawn across the trail," eh?
- Extract from : « The Riddle of the Night » by Thomas W. Hanshew
- He drew the red herring of the Reformation across the trail of the divorce.
- Extract from : « Henry VIII and His Court » by Herbert Tree
- It was a foregone conclusion that a red herring should become their sign after that!
- Extract from : « Fanny Goes to War » by Pat Beauchamp
- His first sign of recovery was his craving for a red herring.
- Extract from : « The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 » by Gordon Sellar
- If I can tell which is the way to my master's house, I am a red herring, and no honest gentleman.
- Extract from : « A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10 (of 15) » by Various
- This clever drawing of a red herring across the trail of the main issue answered.
- Extract from : « A Veldt Official » by Bertram Mitford
- And after the sausages had ceased to be, he lit a Red Herring cigarette and went swaggering out into the twilight street.
- Extract from : « The Wheels of Chance » by H. G. Wells
- His wife would be a dreadful person, thin, withered, herring-gutted—a sort of red herring with a cap.
- Extract from : « Vain Fortune » by George Moore
- The red herring of annexation was drawn across the trail, and many a farmer followed it to the polling booth.
- Extract from : « The Canadian Dominion » by Oscar D. Skelton