Dead Herring

When someone brings up an old problem in a friendship or relationship to distract from the issue at hand. Similar to a "Red Herring", except that it is an old issue. This usually leads to an escalation in the argument.

husband: Why did you let that guy give you his phone number? You should have just said "I'm married".
wife: oh come on! you flirted with my friend Jane at that Belle and Sebastian concert.
husband: that was 5 years ago and I already said sorry for that like a thousand times! You always dig up dead herrings whenever I call you on your bullshit!!!

Dead Herring by leighmon July 12, 2013

dead herring

contary to popular belief a 'dead herring' referes to the case in which all the answer exhibited in a multichoise questions do not satisfy the criteria to corrispond to the question. this is normally done by a teacher that is identified by the name anti-haasskett or a binary opposed haaasskkket.

"WTF THIS MUTLI CHOISE IS A DEAD HERRING" "you are correct the premise of the question is invalid." HOW IS NONE THE ANSWER. and so on.

dead herring by taskmaster September 12, 2009

author is open to hearing about dead batteries 

an AO3 tag for smut fanfiction meaning the author of said fic is open to hearing about readers masturbating to the fic.

"its fine to tell me that you jerked off to my fics as long as the fic has the author is open to hearing about dead batteries tag."

author is open to hearing about dead batteries by sharksrcool January 8, 2023