Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.
Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
There's lots of good fish in the sea. . . maybe. . . but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.
The moon shone like herrings in the water.
I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.
She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
