[Ads-l] a red herring, if not a red herring

[Stephen Goranson]

…those sagacious country gentlemen, who had so long vociferated for the American war , ( a war which he should ever think impolitic, unjust, and inexpedient ) who had so long run on the red herring scent of American taxation , before they found out there was no game on foot; they, who (their prototype) Don Quixote, had mistaken…
p. 508 in The Parliamentary Register, or History...House of Commons

OED red herring, n. 2, 1807f

Stephen

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