| 单词 | straw-man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstraw-man straw-man n. (a) a figure of a man made of straw; (b) a ‘man of straw’ (Webster 1911). ΚΠ 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 567 A scarre-crowe to make them afraide, as wee vse to deale with little children and with birdes by puppets and strawe-men. 1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. 247 Sometimes a straw man was burned in the ‘hut’. 1896 L. T. Hobhouse Theory of Knowl. 59 The straw man was easily enough knocked over by the critic who set him up. 1934 A. Woollcott While Rome Burns 76 I have often challenged one of these straw-man authorities. 1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night 328 The authorities..only got the Rumanian captain and his crew, who couldn't give away much as all their dealings had been with straw men under assumed names. 1981 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel is Puzzled xviii. 180 He seemed active enough, but there seemed an awful lot lacking in him... Was he really just a straw man? < as lemmas |
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