straw man

1 The argument is that the demonstration was built on a big straw man fallacy.

2 This is a straw man argument of the sort Williams delights in, in his Sun platform on the editorial pages.

3 Now, every good straw man has a kernel of truth to it.

4 And nearly three hours is a long time to spend with only one real person, who keeps getting attacked by straw men.

5 That both consider realism’s antecedents and insights without using some variant of liberalism as a straw man is equally impressive.

6 But again, that's a straw man—no one was arguing that backcountry streams were the main source of Giardia infections.

7 Once again those with a global agenda have created a straw man by misrepresenting the position of their critics.

8 Dominic Carter does his best with the character of Dr. George Seward, the head physician of the asylum, though Seward is a caricature of male pomposity, an endlessly mansplaining straw man set up only to be knocked down.

9 He was too good to be a scarecrow and he was too good to be a man.

他太完美了不能做个稻草人，他做一个男人也太完美了。

10 The Scarecrow's fields are full of genetically modified soya and the Tin Man has silicon components.

竖立着稻草人的田野现在充斥着转基因大豆，而铁皮人也已装上了半导体芯片。

11 He seems to be looking for a man of straw to belabour.

他看来在找一个假想的敌人来加以痛打。

1 傀儡

tool puppet figurehead