red herring
noun [C]Definition
› a fact, idea, or subject that takes people's attention away from the central point being considered: The police investigated many clues, but they were all red herrings.IrrelevantConfusion, confusing and feeling confused
(Definition of red herring noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a fifth/third wheel idiom
- be neither here nor there idiom
- be no object idiom
- beside preposition
- enter into sth phrasal verb
- extraneous adjective
- immaterial adjective
- irrelevance noun
- irrelevant adjective
- make no odds idiom
- moot adjective (LEGAL CASE)
- nothing pronoun
- out of the picture idiom
- point noun (IDEA EXPRESSED)
- prejudice noun
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