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Re: [Idioms #17] to throw a red herring Copyright (c) 2004 by Ja ..
Jack Hamilton (jfh@acm.org) 2004/01/29 09:12

Enrico C <enrico.c@spamcop.net> wrote:

>"It's a red herring that misguided people throw up to distract you
>from the real issues."

I don't think that "throw" is part of the idiom - it just happened to be
used in some of your examples.  "Throw" is typically not used with "red
herring".




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Jack Hamilton
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