a red herring

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a red herring

something that takes people's attention away from the main subject being talked or written about About halfway through the book it looked as though the butler was the murderer, but that turned out to be a red herring.

See also: herring, red

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Julia Plumb, E London A A RED herring is a dried, smoked herring. This is no red herring, honest; yourletters by The Mirror (London, England) Recognized as One of the Top Entrepreneurial Technology Companies Worldwide ATLANTA -- Oversight Systems, the leader in continuous controls monitoring for transactions (CCM-T) today announced it is a Red Herring Top 100 Global Company. Oversight Systems Awarded Red Herring Top 100 Global Company for ... by Business Wire Julia Plumb, E London A A RED herring is a dried, smoked herring. This is no red herring, honest; Question Time: yourletters by The Mirror (London, England)			a prime mover a priori a prophet of doom a pub crawl a put-up job a Pyrrhic victory a quantum leap a queer fish a question mark over a quick fix a quick one a quick study a quid pro quo a race against the clock a race against time a race against time clock a rake-off a rap across the knuckles a rap sheet a rat fink a rat race a raw deal a ray of sunshine a red cent a red eye a red herring a red-letter day a reign of terror a Renaissance man a rent boy a revolving door a rich seam a ringside seat a rip-off a ripple effect a rite of passage a road hog a roll in the hay a roller coaster a roof over head a rough diamond a roving eye a rubber check a rude awakening a rule of thumb a rum do a run for money a running battle a rush of blood a sacred cow a sad state of affairs			A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases A Random Walk Down Wall Street a rap across the knuckles a rap on the knuckles a rap over the knuckles a rap sheet a rat fink A Rat in the House Might Eat the Ice Cream A Rat in Tom's House Might Eat Tom's Ice Cream a rat race A Rating A Ratings A ratio A ratio A ratio a raw deal a ray of sunshine A Real American Hero A Real Victorian Leadlight A Real-Time Interface Coprocessor A Realization of Distributed Analysis A Really Nice Person A Recipe for Success, Ltd. A record a red cent a red eye a red herring A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Tomatoes in Church A Red Orchid Theatre a red-letter day A Reflection in Glass A register a reign of terror A Reliable Computer/Human Interaction Environment A Remote Network Server a Renaissance man A rendre a rent boy A Report of External Professional Activities A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers A Request for Quotation A respecter of persons A Retrieval Process Language a revolving door a rich seam A ring A ring A ring a ringside seat a ringside view a rip-off a ripple effect a rite of passage

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