straw man

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstraw manstraw manAmerican EnglishBEAT/DEFEAT a weak opponent or imaginary argument that can easily be defeated → strawExamples from the Corpusstraw man• And, like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine, he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down.• Whether Lorenz's critics were firing a straw man is unimportant.• The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down.• The half-hour show uses these to the fullest, setting up straw man after straw man for Daria to demolish.

单词	straw man
释义	straw man From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstraw manstraw manAmerican EnglishBEAT/DEFEAT a weak opponent or imaginary argument that can easily be defeated → strawExamples from the Corpusstraw man• And, like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine, he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down.• Whether Lorenz's critics were firing a straw man is unimportant.• The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down.• The half-hour show uses these to the fullest, setting up straw man after straw man for Daria to demolish.
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