Red Herring
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue
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a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- preliminary prospectussmoked herring
- plural
- Red Herrings
- possessive
- Red Herring's
- pluralpossessive
- Red Herrings'