The phrase "a red thread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to refer to a common theme or underlying connection in a narrative or discussion.
Example: "Throughout the novel, the red thread of love and sacrifice binds the characters together."
Alternatives: "a common theme" or "an underlying connection".
Paul de Man's name, Barish found, "runs like a red thread" through the dossiers compiled by the military court that conducted the inquiries.
It's no less a faux documentary than a corporate promotional film might be, but its spin reflects ideals that run like a red thread through modern life.
"If there's a red thread running through these fascinatingly diverse novels, it's a very contemporary concern with life at its furthest edges".
Exploitation by employers from whom you least expect it (I considered myself in those days a comrade of the log-cabin people, after all) is not exactly a red thread running through my memory, but it's something like it.
Madonna, who wears a red thread around her wrist to protect her from negative influences (price £15), yesterday defended her adherence to Kabbalah in New York, although she did not comment on the fraud allegations.
Pain and injury run through the film like a red thread, from the hazing of "chops" administered to a rookie and the stitches that the combatants bear to the backstories — of troubled childhoods and surgeries, the emotional burden of broken romance and legal problems — that propel young men (and they're all men) to create fictive personae within which they can mime mortal combat.
Dressed in a skirt from the sewing room and a twinset that the matron had bought, and with a red ribbon threaded through her already graying hair, Naida waited for the car.
Moreover as an analytical red thread a multi criteria analysis was used by which the diversity of (to a large extent incommensurable) information and opinions could be both embraced and structured so as to fit next steps in the process.
Unlike many edited books, this volume has a clear theoretical message and a visible red thread.
Saliva was collected from the oral cavity of individual mice for 10 min. At week 30, tear volumes from individual animal were measured after i.p. injection of pilocarpine (4.5 mg/g [BW]) for 20 s and determined using a phenol red thread (Zone-Quick, FCI Ophthalmics, Pembrooke, MA, USA), a modified version of the Schirmer test as described [ 8].
The destructiveness wrought in the name of ideology is an all-too-human characteristic that runs like a lamentable red thread throughout the course of human history.
