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red herring
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  • I think I provided a very nice red herring, if I do say so myself.†   (source)
  • As a red herring.†   (source)
  • A red herring, Mike thought, a red herring for sure.†   (source)
  • Toss in a red herring to confuse the issue.†   (source)
  • God knows what kind of red-herring Powell's following, but it's away from you.†   (source)
  • Four little Indian boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.†   (source)
  • Actually mentioning a red herring in the verse.†   (source)
  • She went on: "A red herring-that's the vital clue."†   (source)
  • There, according to the report of one of his colleagues at the Illinois bar, Lincoln warned that Douglas and his followers would frighten men away from the very idea of freedom with their incessant mouthing of the red-herring epithet: "Abolitionist!"†   (source)
  • Further to confuse the issue, a red herring was drawn across the trail-the mythical woman in the red kimono.†   (source)
  • It was his idea to puff a few puffs on a Camel (after the rubbing-out), stub it out in the ashtray holding her lipstick-stained Luckies, and thus drag a small red herring across the trail.†   (source)
  • Armstrong's death is associated with a "red herring" which he swallowed-or rather which resulted in swallowing him!†   (source)
  • She recited in a meaning voice: "Four little Indian boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three."†   (source)
  • He was still quite unsuspicious-and yet he ought to have been warned— If he had only remembered the words of the nursery rhyme, "A red herring swallowed one .†   (source)
  • He took the red herring all right.†   (source)
  • No, no, I have no liking for bears and wolves, though a whale, in my eye, is very much the same sort of fish as a red herring after it is dried and salted.†   (source)
  • —Nor good red herring, says Joe.†   (source)
  • Because he more than suspected he had his father's voice to bank his hopes on which it was quite on the cards he had so it would be just as well, by the way no harm, to trail the conversation in the direction of that particular red herring just to.†   (source)
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  • They placed red herrings across the ruins-chemical glowsticks that gave off human-size pockets of heat-and covered the windows of their building with sheets of black Mylar.†   (source)
  • I like The Hound of the Baskervilles because it is a detective story, which means that there are clues and Red Herrings.†   (source)
  • And these are some of the Red Herrings Sherlock Holmes and Watson are followed when they are in London by a man in a coach with a black beard.†   (source)
  • 'But I don't like the carving-knife, Mr. Hindley,' I answered; 'it has been cutting red herrings.†   (source)
  • "Mamma," said Rosamond, "when Fred comes down I wish you would not let him have red herrings.†   (source)
  • He asked this member of the fraternity (who had two red herrings in his hand, and a loaf and a blacking brush under his arm), where was the nearest place to get a cup of coffee at.†   (source)
  • SIR P: One is, and that I care not greatly who knows, to serve the state Of Venice with red herrings for three years, And at a certain rate, from Rotterdam, Where I have correspendence.†   (source)
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