| 词汇 | stalking-horse |
| 释义 | stalking horse noun[ C ] uk /ˈstɔː.kɪŋ ˌhɔːs/ us /ˈstɑː.kɪŋ ˌhɔːrs/ in politics, someone who competes for a position that they have no chance of winning, in order to divide the opposition to a particular group or to take attention away from another person who that group really wants to win.（竞选中旨在分化对方力量或掩护己方主要候选人的）掩护性候选人 Voters & candidates in elections abstainer Brexiteer candidate carpetbagger constituency constituent coronate floating voter multi-candidate nay non-voter non-voting primary slate ticket unaffiliated unelectable voter write in yea Examples of stalking horsestalking horse This question is too serious to make the ex-service man or woman who is a pensioner a stalkinghorse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think we ought to use the working man as a stalkinghorse for this sort of thing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have no notion of getting up and being made a sort of stalkinghorse for an attack upon one of my colleagues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I look upon this as a stalkinghorse for the main issue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have nothing of our own and, in a sense, we are the stalkinghorse for future unity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You will find that the public is the stalkinghorse, but nothing else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is there to be a stalkinghorse or not? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is only put forward as a sort of stalkinghorse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps the real stalkinghorse will come not this year, but next year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I make no secret of the fact that this has been an old stalkinghorse of mine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once again it is a stalkinghorse for something much more important. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not persuaded that it is right to let a local authority, however powerful and resourceful, be the stalkinghorse for that controversial issue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I turn to the favourite stalkinghorse of the party opposite—the capital gains tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that he is anyone's creature or stalkinghorse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are using the circumstances of this discussion as a stalkinghorse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of stalking horse These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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