Red herring
The phrase red herring has a number of metaphorical senses that share the general sense of something being a diversion or distraction from the original objective:
* a type of logical fallacy in which one purports to prove one's point by means of irrelevant arguments. See Ignoratio elenchi.
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The phrase red herring has a number of metaphorical senses that share the general sense of something being a diversion or distraction from the original objective:
a type of logical fallacy in which one purports to prove one's point by means of irrelevant arguments. See Ignoratio elenchi.
