red herring English

Meaning red herring meaning

What does red herring mean?

red herring

— noun any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue

— noun (= smoked herring) a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color

— noun (= preliminary prospectus) a first draft of a prospectus; must be clearly marked to indicate that parts may be changed in the final prospectus because some portions of the cover page are printed in red ink a preliminary prospectus is sometimes called a red herring

Synonyms red herring synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as red herring?

red herring English » English

preliminary prospectus

smoked herring

red herring prospectus

kippered herring

subterfuge

stalling

stall

prospectus

plant

mystification

kipper

jiggery-pokery

front

feint

fake

diversion

booklet

bluff

bloater

blind

Examples red herring examples

How do I use red herring in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

I moved the pistol from the study to the library at one point when I had suspicions Lucas may have been the perpetrator, but it was merely a red herring.

News and current affairs

Perhaps, but this is probably a red herring.

But, at the risk of mixing metaphors, this is a red herring.