English
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Noun
red herring
- A smoke-cured herring.
- idiom A clue that is misleading or that has been falsified, intended to divert attention (from the use of smoked herrings to mislead hounds following a trail).
#: �Gall, the guy that does the hyp act is too shrewd, I think, to have committed such a smart murder and left himself with his pants down with no other red herring around.� --Svengali Kill 1
Translations
trans-top|smoke-cured herring
Dutch: gerookte haring m
Finnish: savusilli
French: hareng saur m
Hungarian: füstölt hering
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Russian: коп��на� �ел�дка (kop�ónaja s'el'ódka) f
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trans-top|misleading clue
Danish: falsk spor n
Dutch: vals spoor n, afleidingsmanoeuvre f
Finnish: harhautus, harhaanjohtava vihje
French: diversion f
German: falsche Fährte f, Nebelkerze f (figurative), Ablenkung f (general); see also: auf dem Holzweg sein (idiomatic) = being mislead
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Italian: specchietto per le allodole m (idiomatic)
Norwegian: blindspor n, feilspor n
Russian: ложн�й �лед (lóžnyj sl'ed) m
Slovak: falošná stopa
Hungarian: hamis nyom, félrevezet� nyom, félrevezetés
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See also
clue
diversion
evidence
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