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red herring

English

  1. 🔊 any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue
  2. 🔊 a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color
  3. 🔊 a first draft of a prospectus
    “because some portions of the cover page are printed in red ink a preliminary prospectus is sometimes called a red herring”

Similar words

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