red herring

2 definitions found

red herring - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  red herring
      n 1: any diversion intended to distract attention from the main
           issue
      2: a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color [syn: red   herring
         , smoked herring]
      3: a first draft of a prospectus; must be clearly marked to
         indicate that parts may be changed in the final prospectus;
         "because some portions of the cover page are printed in red
         ink a preliminary prospectus is sometimes called a red
         herring" [syn: preliminary prospectus, red herring]

red herring - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "red herring":
     anguille, art, artful dodge, artifice, blind, caviar, chicanery,
     conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, cute trick, deceit, design,
     device, dodge, eel, expedient, fakement, feint, fetch, fish,
     fish eggs, gambit, game, gimmick, grift, intrigue, jugglery,
     kipper, kippered salmon, knavery, little game, maneuver, move,
     plot, ploy, poisson, racket, roe, ruse, scheme, seafood, shift,
     sleight, smoked herring, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, tactic,
     trick, trickery, wile, wily device