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“Gall, the guy that does the hyp act is too shrewd, I think, to have committed such a smart murder and left himself with his pants down with no other red herring around.” -- Svengali Kill
Submitted on September 01, 2009
Additional definitions for 'red herring':
| red herring | A smoke-cured herring. |
| Red Herring | Something that can be extremely misleading and can cause the attention of an individual to be diverted to something else from the main issue/subject |
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