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单词 man of straw
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man of straw

1 another term for straw man.Murray does demonstrate that the men of straw have failed to silence him, for which he deserves much praise....
  • My accusers will be men of straw and I will not have the financial ability to pursue a claim for malicious prosecution.
  • These are men of straw of whom no trace will be found after a few years.
2A person undertaking a financial commitment without adequate means.Some of the borrowing was by companies to whom loans should never have been contemplated, on apparently over-valued property, and where guarantors turned out to be men of straw....
  • Unless the claimant is seeking an injunction, it is a profitless exercise to sue a man of straw since the remedy will be empty and the claimant left to meet his own legal costs.
  • The trial judge found that there was overwhelming evidence that the husband was a man of straw with no financial capacity to conduct the litigation.
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