noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
red herring
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
red
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Female speaker I think it's a red herring .
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According to Mattel, antitrust issues were a red herring .
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His racial theory was almost certainly a red herring , 5 but the notion of selective mate choice was not.
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The holocaust is an immense and vile red herring .
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Meg's determination not to see her; her red herring about the mysterious proposal of marriage.
■ NOUN
gull
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There was a seal there in some water, a great herring gull with a damaged foot, and other creatures.
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The herring gulls are local resident birds, and great opportunists, able to change their feeding habits to whatever is available.
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Up in the hills are the gull colonies, herring gull and lesser black-backed, on the shores of inland windswept lochs.
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Marauding birds such as herring gulls will grab and swallow a chick if they get a chance.
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A very tame herring gull perched on the rail throughout most of the crossing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Herring , herring! until you were sick to death of them.
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A few dozen herring here or there; nobody troubled: every child went home with a few dozen herring on a string.
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Girls, caught by the arm, have snow rubbed into their hair like salt into a herring .
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I., resident, as he sifted through a group of dead herring and scat on East Matunuck Beach.
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One issue between these parties was whether the herring meal supplied corresponded with the description.
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The herring was never quite considered a member of the fish family.
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Those herring fishing days are gone.
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When a herring meets its end, it is usually in the mouth of a bigger fish or a in a net.