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The term "red herring" originates from the 19th century practice of using strong smelling, smoked fish to train dogs or distract them from a scent trail. It was famously popularised by British journalist William Corbett in 1807 to describe misleading press reports, and later adopted in literature as a device to divert readers from the truth.

The term "white elephant" originates from Southeast Asian legends, particularly from Siam (Thailand), where rare, sacred white elephants were considered symbols of royal power and prosperity, but were also burdensome because they couldn't work and were expensive to maintain. The story goes that the king would gift these magnificent but impractical animals to courtiers he disliked, ruining them financially with the upkeep costs, making it a blessing and a curse.

The phrase white elephant describes a costly, useless possession that is hard to get rid of.

Do you own a white elephant or have you owned one, and have you ever received a red herring?

What is your opinion?

Why was this America-hating piece of trash allowed to perform at the biggest American sporting event of the year? Seriously. Absolutely ridiculous and disgusting. The NFL should be ashamed

Whether it’s books, movies or video games

Come on GAGers, show your love!

If you don’t know who she is just think Eva Braun.

anyways i think meisha here pretty much laid the smack down on her huh? Lol 😂

First of all, I'm warning you in advance. Please don't write political comments. I'm only asking a cultural question.

As for my question, Iranians are not Arabs, they are Persians. Also, there is a Turkic population in Iran that is almost as large as the Persian population. I am a young Turk living in Türkiye.

In Türkiye, the Arabic alphabet was used until 1928, after which the Latin alphabet was adopted. We still use the Latin alphabet today. However, the Arabic alphabet is still used in Iran. As a child, I thought Iranians were Arabs because they used the Arabic alphabet. That was until I did some research. When I grew up and did my research, I learned that Iranians are not Arabs but Persians, that their official language is Persian, and that they only use the Arabic alphabet. Did you also think Iranians were Arabs when you were little?

Try to answer as truthfully as you can.

All the agnostic women I've met besides the ones I'm related to (except the ones my age of course) are liberal feminists who don't want children and they don't want to be a traditional wife. All the religious Christians I know my age are married and have traditional wives already. Do I pretend and join the cult or do I stay myself and risk being alone for the rest of my life? I have Christian values and morals I just don't believe in the deity. Please help.