What is "herrings"

Usage examples of "herrings".

But the real point is that he wasn't murdered only so that our friend could cast more red herrings around and so buy more time: he had to die and our friend thought he might as well make it look like suicide while he was about it in the hope of stalling us further.

Another of his never-ending red herrings -- the Communist red herring, of course, was purely fortuitous, he'd no hand in that at all.

As he approached he saw that they had five dried herrings laid out in front of them, with a great hunch of wheaten bread and a leathern flask full of milk, but instead of setting to at their food they appeared to have forgot all about it, and were disputing together with flushed faces and angry gestures.

For, coz, since all thoughts are things, you have but to think a pair of herrings, and then conjure up a pottle of milk wherewith to wash them down.

We are like to have salt water upon us until we be found pickled like the herrings in an Easterling's barrels.