red herring 的定义
- a smoked herring.
- something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand; a misleading clue.
- Also called red-herring prospectus. Finance. a tentative prospectus circulated by the underwriters of a new issue of stocks or bonds that is pending approval by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: so called because the front cover of such a prospectus must carry a special notice printed in red.
- any similar tentative financial prospectus, as one concerning a pending or proposed sale of cooperative or condominium apartments.
red herring 近义词
misleading clue
更多red herring例句
- Blaming a busted deal on "market conditions" is a well-worn red herring.
- Then again, a member of Congress throwing out red herrings to justify hate and discrimination is nothing new.
- Ekback excels at presenting red herrings, and the plot zigzags in intriguing ways.
- There were certainly many red herrings during the hunt for why sea stars along North America’s Pacific Coast were melting into goo, says Ian Hewson, a marine biologist at Cornell University.
- Without spoiling, the revelation is much more boring, leaving this “twist” to be more of a red herring.
- Former Red Sox star Curt Schilling says his politics are keeping him out of Cooperstown.
- Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.
- There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
- A Republican candidate hoping to win red state support could find a worse team to root for than one from Dallas.
- The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.
- Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.
- Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
- “You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
- Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.
- C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a drunkard, and had a red face.