REDHERRING

Red Herring

Red Herring is a media company that publishes an innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and hosts events for technology leaders.

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Red herring

The idiom "red herring" is used to refer to something that misleads or distracts from the relevant or important issue. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or characters towards a false conclusion. Red herrings often occur in mystery or detective fiction, or as a rhetorical manoeuvre .

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red herring

Noun

  1. A smoke-cured and salt-brined herring strong enough to turn the flesh red; a type of kipper.
    "Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left the hole as big as it was before." ( diary entry of 28 February 1660)
  2. A clue or information that is or is intended to be misleading, that diverts attention from a question.


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