| 词汇 | a man of straw |
| 释义 | Idiom a man of straw British, American & Australian, American a person or an idea that is weak and easy to defeat.Compared to their illustrious predecessors, the country's leaders seem to be men of straw. man of strawA weak person. "A straw man" is sometimes used as a variant. She thought he was strong and honest, but he turned out to be nothing more than a man of straw. a man of strawora straw manBRITISH, FORMALA man of straw is a man whose character is weak and who lacks definite beliefs. The party is run by men of straw without guts and without principles. Note: In journalism, people also talk about straw men. This form of the expression is used in both British and American English. These are the responses of straw men with straw policies. a ˌman of ˈstrawa weak or cowardly person: You don’t need to be frightened of him — he’s a man of straw.This idiom compares a person to a model of a man filled with straw (= stems of grain plants such as wheat, etc. that have been cut and dried). |
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