false clue
Example Sentences
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Ackroyd equates a MacGuffin with a red herring, which means almost the opposite: a false clue.
From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2016
You may think the scene is some kind of a MacGuffin, a false clue, but it isn't.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2012
That, too, could be a false clue, since everything Nicholson does can be attributed to psychosis, to a weakened mind placed under intolerable pressure by isolation.
From Time Magazine Archive
That he had still retained the long, yellow mackintosh may have been with the idea of starting a false clue.
From The Fawn Gloves by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
They were beginning to wonder whether they were following a false clue.
From Bob Cook and the German Spy by Tomlinson, Paul Greene
