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red herring
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red herring as in:  distracted with a red herring

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    Either that or it was a Red Herring, which is a clue which makes you come to a wrong conclusion or something which looks like a clue but isn't.  (source)
    Red Herring = a diversion intended to distract attention from the truth
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    Charles says I'm not one thing or the other, not flesh nor fowl nor good red herring.†  (source)
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    The spectacular incident of the stones serves as a kind of red herring in this respect.†  (source)
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    Ammu said that the kathakali dancer was a Red Herring and had nothing to do with anything.†  (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)
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    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)
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    Toss in a red herring to confuse the issue.†  (source)
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    'But I don't like the carving-knife, Mr. Hindley,' I answered; 'it has been cutting red herrings.†  (source)
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    God knows what kind of red-herring Powell's following, but it's away from you.†  (source)
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    It worried me that they'd stopped talking about drugs — Boris's red herring—and had moved on to other angles.†  (source)
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    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)
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    A red herring.†  (source)
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    I like The Hound of the Baskervilles because it is a detective story, which means that there are clues and Red Herrings.  (source)
    Red Herrings = diversions intended to distract attention from the truth
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