Never a barrel the better herring. [ Proverb ]

A wet hand will hold a dead herring. [ Proverb ]

Let every herring hang by its own tail. [ Irish Proverb ]

Every herring must hang by his own gills. [ Proverb ]

To fish with a herring, and catch a sprat. [ Proverb ]

Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. [ Proverb ]

Every sprat, now-a-days, calls itself a herring. [ Proverb ]

He is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. [ Proverb ]