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Meanings of straw man in English
Portuguese
falácia do espantalho Catalan
tapadora A person used as a cover for some questionable activity.
Portuguese
espantalho Catalan
espantall Synonyms
Examples for "scarecrow"
Examples for "scarecrow"
1
He spent part of the afternoon in throwing stones at a scarecrow.
2
The scarecrow simply shrugs and returns to mopping the polished onyx floor.
3
The next instant the scarecrow figure seemed to fly all to pieces.
4
Henceforth you will be described as a scarecrow in all Slavonic fights.
5
I still felt like a scarecrow, but I was on my way.
1
When night came down, he decided to risk a scarer approach.
2
He collects famous scarer memorabilia and has read every scaring text book there is.
3
Whose thrall art thou now, thou lifter of the spoil, thou scarer of the freeborn?
4
His head is swiveling like a bird-scarer, taking in my twelve square meters of squalor.
5
Mike has always dreamed of being a scarer.
1
His head is swiveling like a bird-scarer, taking in my twelve square meters of squalor.
2
They haunted newly-sown fields and would rise, all right, at a shout from a bird-scarer, but were difficult to shoot.
3
Visiting Salisbury Museum, I found myself eyeballing the last great bustard in Victorian England, shot down by a bird-scarer with a marble in 1871.
Russian
уловка чучело Portuguese
falácia do espantalho Spanish
falacia del hombre de paja Catalan
fal·làcia de l'home de palla A form of argument and an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent.
See moreUsage of straw man in English
1
The next criticism is a related one: the great ' straw man' offensive.
2
He set up this straw man here, just to keep me company.
3
Ivy hugged me and slipped a little straw man into my hand.
4
And a marvelous straw man to knock down with their scientific exorcisms.
5
He looked a straw man set out to announce some holiday.
6
As usual, the straw man is set up to be demolished.
7
That shows these categories always had something of the straw man in them.
8
The straw man caught him mid-swing, knocking the staff out of his hands.
9
Even more frustrating is the straw man description of video games.
10
Sekeu gave the straw man a shove and nodded to Nick.
11
The dog, surprised, was watching this straw man, and was quiet, although famished.
12
Again Sekeu swung the straw man, again the straw man knocked him down.
13
Leroy struck the straw man a powerful blow, sending the dummy flipping back.
14
But Collins said Delors's comments were only ever a straw man for her team.
15
He invoked Pinochet and his regime as a scary straw man to frighten people.
16
Dorothy asked the straw man, as they entered the house.
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Translations for straw man
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Russian
Straw man through the time
Straw man across language varieties
United States of America
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