📚 noun • entry_id 8751
red herring
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pista falsa
A clue, information, argument, etc. that is or is intended to be misleading, diverting attention from the real answer or issue.
By its thirtieth episode, the show [Twin Peaks] had degenerated into tics and shticks and mannerisms and red herrings, and part of the explanation for this was that [David] Lynch w…
Caroline visibly wavered for a second or two, much as a roulette ball might coyly hover between two numbers. Then she declined the tempting red herring.
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