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Значения термина strawman на английском

португальский
falácia do espantalho
каталонский
tapadora

A person used as a cover for some questionable activity.

falácia do espantalho
португальский
espantalho
каталонский
espantall

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

espantalho
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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
Использование термина strawman на английском
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They even laid out a strawman organization that made sense to me.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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I don't want you to think I'm building a strawman here.
Wired
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One strawman proposal has been advanced, suggesting a leadership split between myself and Dr. Brown.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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There is sound logic in the strawman proposal.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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We end the so-called strawman provision.
The Guardian
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Any document where your name is spelled out in capitals is likely to be artefact of the strawman.
The Guardian
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The official identity is a "strawman" that financially bankrupt governments use to sell bonds on the productive energy of their citizens.
The Guardian
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This 12 per cent compares with the mooted 14 per cent under the auto-enrolment strawman from 2028 onward.
The Irish Times
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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.
Wired
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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.
The Irish Times
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Then I learned that my indefinite gentleman had been a partner of the forger's brother, and that his name was Strawman.
Plays by August Strindberg: Creditors. Pariah.
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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.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
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They even laid out a strawman organization that made sense to me.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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I don't want you to think I'm building a strawman here.
Wired
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One strawman proposal has been advanced, suggesting a leadership split between myself and Dr. Brown.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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There is sound logic in the strawman proposal.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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