red herring

• POS: Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: red her=ring

THESAURUS

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