| 词汇 | a straw man |
| 释义 | (redirected from a straw man)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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