red herring   (TTS Sound)

The noun red herring has 3 senses

• red herring -- (any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue)


• red herring, smoked herring -- (a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color)


• preliminary prospectus, red herring -- (a first draft of a prospectus; must be clearly marked to indicate that parts may be changed in the final prospectus; "because some portions of the cover page are printed in red ink a preliminary prospectus is sometimes called a red herring")