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Smoked herring   /smoʊkt hˈɛrɪŋ/   Listen
Smoked herring

noun
1.
A dried and smoked herring having a reddish color.  Synonym: red herring.





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"Smoked herring" Quotes from Famous Books



... illustrate the force of imagination, ranging through all the grades of mental action, from the lofty visions of good men who dream of seeing heaven opened to them, and all its ineffable glories and delights, down to the low comedy conceit of the fellow who put a smoked herring into the tail of his coat ...
— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum


Words linked to "Smoked herring" :   red herring, herring


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