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Meanings of strawman in inglês
português
falácia do espantalho catalão
tapadora A person used as a cover for some questionable activity.
português
espantalho catalão
espantall Synonyms
Examples for "scarecrow"
Examples for "scarecrow"
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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.
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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.
Usage of strawman in inglês
1
They even laid out a strawman organization that made sense to me.
2
I don't want you to think I'm building a strawman here.
3
One strawman proposal has been advanced, suggesting a leadership split between myself and Dr. Brown.
4
There is sound logic in the strawman proposal.
5
We end the so-called strawman provision.
6
Any document where your name is spelled out in capitals is likely to be artefact of the strawman.
7
The official identity is a "strawman" that financially bankrupt governments use to sell bonds on the productive energy of their citizens.
8
This 12 per cent compares with the mooted 14 per cent under the auto-enrolment strawman from 2028 onward.
9
On the bright side, a lot of the products that say they contain "nanotechnology" probably don't, so maybe I'm worrying about a strawman.
10
It is flawed as far as that is concerned. The strawman document also envisages a €20,000 income floor below which people wouldn't be auto-enrolled.
11
Then I learned that my indefinite gentleman had been a partner of the forger's brother, and that his name was Strawman.
12
In the mid-1980s, after Operation Strawman, the upperworld took over Las Vegas and pronounced that everything was now sanitized enough to bring the kiddies along.
13
They even laid out a strawman organization that made sense to me.
14
I don't want you to think I'm building a strawman here.
15
One strawman proposal has been advanced, suggesting a leadership split between myself and Dr. Brown.
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There is sound logic in the strawman proposal.
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