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"etymology_text": "One possible origin of the idiom was that red herring were used to train dogs to track scents. This was true, but the modern meaning of a false trail may have been popularised in a news story by English journalist William Cobbett, c. 1805, in which he claimed that as a boy he used a red herring (a cured and salted herring) to mislead hounds following a trail; the story served as an extended metaphor for the London press, which had earned Cobbett's ire by publishing false news accounts regarding Napoleon. The OED has another possible earlier origin in the legacy of clergyman Jasper Mayne in 1672 when he misled a servant by leaving him \"Somewhat that would make him Drink after his Death\" in a large trunk. When the trunk was opened, the contents were found to be red herring.",
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"ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group",
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"ref": "2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian, London",
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"ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "smoke-cured herring",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arenque ahumado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "smoke-cured herring",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "böckling"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ulóvka",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "уло́вка"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "falsk spor"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vals spoor"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "afleidingsmanoeuvre"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"word": "harhautus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"word": "hämäys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "diversion"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"word": "leurre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hareng rouge"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fausse piste"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "saṭq̇uara",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"word": "სატყუარა"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "falsche Fährte"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"figuratively"
],
"word": "Nebelkerze"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"general"
],
"word": "Ablenkung"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "paraplánisi",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "παραπλάνηση"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "antiperispasmós",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αντιπερισπασμός"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"word": "hamis/félrevezető nyom"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"word": "félrevezetés"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "falsa pista"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "specchietto per le allodole"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "blindspor"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "feilspor"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fałszywy trop"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"feminine"
],
"word": "podpucha"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pista falsa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cortina de fumaça"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "diversiune"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "false track",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lóžnyj sled",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ло́жный след"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zagovarivanije zubov",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "заговаривание зубов"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"word": "falošná stopa"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "misleading clue",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pista falsa"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Michael Quinion"
],
"word": "red herring"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: which may take either",
"path": [
"red herring"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "red herring",
"trace": ""
}
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