单词 | man of straw |
释义 | man of straw1 another term for straw man.Murray does demonstrate that the men of straw have failed to silence him, for which he deserves much praise....
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....
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