Cyber-attack:red herring, bloater, raw herring

 

Cyber-attack: Security minister says XP issue a 'red herring'

Security Minister Ben Wallace admits that the government needs to ask itself why the software that would have protected computers from the cyber-attack wasn't uniformly installed across the NHS.

“This whole thing is a series of puzzles and, frankly, red herrings.”

Lost: The mysterious, baffling disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

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Bomb? Pilot suicide? Shot down? Catastrophic decompression? How...

Tone-Deaf in Rome
Instead of a clear plan for enacting reform, the Vatican offers a red herring, citing the movement for the ordination of women as a “grave crime.”

Herring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae. They often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast. The most abundant ...

生鯡魚(Raw Herring)加洋蔥末 ”生吞”，這是絕 對要體驗一下的荷蘭”國吃”！ 

red herring

Syllabification: red her·ring

noun

• 1 A dried smoked herring, which is turned red by the smoke.
  

  
  

2  Something, especially a clue, that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting: the book is fast-paced, exciting, and full of red herrings

[so named from the practice of using the scent of red herring in training hounds]

herring

n. - 青魚, 鯡

herring[her・ring]

• 発音記号[hériŋ]
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[名]（複〜, 〜s）[U][C]《魚》ニシン

herring roe
数の子

kippered herring
薫製ニシン

a piece of herring
1切れのニシン.

the herring pond

((おどけて))大洋, （特に）北大西洋.



red herring
(red HER-ing)

noun
A misleading clue; something used to divert attention from the real issue.

Etymology
From the former practice of drawing a smoked herring across the track to teach hounds not to be distracted from other scents.
Usage
"When I hear hysterical opposition from some self-styled leaders in the business community to such a common-sense policy as the living wage, I have to shake my head. They trot out all the tired old red herrings about the living wage being bad for business or adversely affecting the business climate or even causing layoffs." — Terry Lierman, `Living Wage' Is Good for Workers and Businesses, The Washington Post, Mar 21, 2002.

Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Bloaters on a Piece of Yellow Paper, January 1889. Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm. Private collection.

Line breaks: bloa¦ter

Pronunciation: /ˈbləʊtə /

NOUN

A herring cured by salting and light smoking.

raw

adjective

• 1(of food) not cooked:raw eggs salsify can be eaten raw in salads
• (of a material or substance) in its natural state; unprocessed:raw silk raw sewage
• (of data) not analysed, evaluated, or processed for use: there were a number of errors in the raw data

• 2(of a part of the body) red and painful, especially as the result of skin abrasion:he scrubbed his hands until they were raw
• (of a person’s nerves) very sensitive: Fran’s nerves were raw

• 3(of an emotion or quality) strong and undisguised:he exuded an air of raw, vibrant masculinity
• frank and realistic in the depiction of unpleasant situations:a raw, uncompromising portrait
• US informal (of language) coarse or crude, typically in relation to sexual matters: his wife has led a campaign against raw lyrics in rock music

• 4(of the weather) cold and damp; bleak:a raw February night

• 5new to an activity or job and therefore lacking experience or skill:they were replaced by raw recruits

• 6(of the edge of a piece of cloth) not having a hem or selvedge: oversewing is used to neaten raw edges

7South African derogatory from a traditional tribal or rural culture: they are mainly raw tribesmen who are intensely conservative