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Significados de straw man em inglês

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A person used as a cover for some questionable activity.

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An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds.

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Examples for "scarecrow"
Examples for "scarecrow"
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He spent part of the afternoon in throwing stones at a scarecrow.
More William
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The scarecrow simply shrugs and returns to mopping the polished onyx floor.
The Sandman Book of Dreams
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The next instant the scarecrow figure seemed to fly all to pieces.
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; Or, Daring Adventures in Eleph...
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Henceforth you will be described as a scarecrow in all Slavonic fights.
Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
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I still felt like a scarecrow, but I was on my way.
On Edge
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When night came down, he decided to risk a scarer approach.
Rolf in the Woods
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He collects famous scarer memorabilia and has read every scaring text book there is.
The Guardian
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Whose thrall art thou now, thou lifter of the spoil, thou scarer of the freeborn?
The Story of the Glittering Plain / Which Has Been Also Called t...
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His head is swiveling like a bird-scarer, taking in my twelve square meters of squalor.
The Rhesus Chart
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Mike has always dreamed of being a scarer.
The Guardian
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His head is swiveling like a bird-scarer, taking in my twelve square meters of squalor.
The Rhesus Chart
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They haunted newly-sown fields and would rise, all right, at a shout from a bird-scarer, but were difficult to shoot.
The Irish Times
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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.
The Guardian
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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.

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Uso de straw man em inglês
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The next criticism is a related one: the great ' straw man' offensive.
The god delusion
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He set up this straw man here, just to keep me company.
The Tale of Ferdinand Frog
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Ivy hugged me and slipped a little straw man into my hand.
Cruel Beauty
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And a marvelous straw man to knock down with their scientific exorcisms.
Gather, Darkness!
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He looked a straw man set out to announce some holiday.
The road
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As usual, the straw man is set up to be demolished.
The Irish Times
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That shows these categories always had something of the straw man in them.
The Guardian
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The straw man caught him mid-swing, knocking the staff out of his hands.
The Child Thief
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Even more frustrating is the straw man description of video games.
The Guardian
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Sekeu gave the straw man a shove and nodded to Nick.
The Child Thief
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The dog, surprised, was watching this straw man, and was quiet, although famished.
Original Short Stories — Volume 07
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Again Sekeu swung the straw man, again the straw man knocked him down.
The Child Thief
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Leroy struck the straw man a powerful blow, sending the dummy flipping back.
The Child Thief
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But Collins said Delors's comments were only ever a straw man for her team.
The Guardian
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He invoked Pinochet and his regime as a scary straw man to frighten people.
The Irish Times
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Dorothy asked the straw man, as they entered the house.
Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz
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Straw man ao longo do tempo
Straw man nas variantes da língua
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