English foxhunters once dragged a red herring in front of their hounds to distract them from the scent of the little furry guy. In time, this practice produced the metaphorical “red herring,” which is ...

Definition of red herring: “from the practice of drawing a red herring across a trail to confuse hunting dogs: something that distracts attention from the real issue.” The Emmy for best local use of a ...

With the plethora of mysteries in genre, lately, we’ve seen a lot of red herrings on screen. Were you aware that, for a long time, the origin of the phrase “red herring” was itself a red herring?

Tana French is an author of murder mysteries who is less concerned with whodunit than with the inner lives of her detectives. In her first book, In the Woods, which came out in 2007, she let what ...

There’s an old term called a red herring, which is essentially an expression to describe a distraction from what’s really going on. In recent weeks, it’s all we have seen. From the outrage over the ...