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"What I lost i'th salt fish I gained i'th red herrings."
John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639, p. 17.

Cadyna: An untrained mage cannot be set loose on innocent people.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Heads Will Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95jwi1kPtRE

"Smith:— Well, son. You look like a soused herring.
Matthew:— Now the captain's gone it's my job to put our girls in pod, so they can throw themselves on the mercy of the court." 
Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper), Act III, Scene 9 [It's a job for a horse. I've got to see the Captain.]