red herring
Example Sentences
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Johnson pledges his devotion to tropes like cawing ravens and thunderous rainstorms while giving his various red herrings silly nicknames like “the knife robot” and “the clangy clunk.”
From Los Angeles Times
Conservative shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately dismissed the digital ID plan as a "distraction and a red herring", saying the scheme would not have stopped the criminal network uncovered by the BBC.
From BBC
Trumpian rhetoric relies on a rotating arsenal of cognitive traps: Whataboutism to deflect, false equivalence to confuse, red herrings to distract and gaslighting to exhaust.
From Salon
This subsidy thing is, again, a red herring.
Temple dismissed Landry’s measure as a “red herring,” that would—if anything—make the market worse by deterring insurers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
