THESAURUS
red herring
anguille, art, artful dodge, artifice, blind, caviar, chicanery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, cute trick, deceit, design, device, dodge, eel, expedient, fakement, feint, fetch, fish, fish eggs, gambit, game, gimmick, grift, intrigue, jugglery, kipper, kippered salmon, knavery, little game, maneuver, move, plot, ploy, poisson, racket, roe, ruse, scheme, seafood, shift, sleight, smoked herring, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, tactic, trick, trickery, wile, wily device