The expression “To draw a red herhing across the track” —meaning, of course, to divert from the main issue—dates back to the middle of the seventeenth century. It owes it« origin to the practice of drawing a dead cat or or a red herring across a track, to train dogs in hunting.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18830, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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