stalking horse
Synonyymisanakirja
stalking horse
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Englannin sanakirja
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puhekieltä A candidate put forward to serve a hidden, ulterior purpose in a political campaign, such as testing the field for another potential candidate by gauge gauging voter sentiment or covertly helping another candidate by attracting voters away from a third candidate.
1842, w:Ellen Marriage|Ellen Marriage (translator), w:Honoré de Balzac|Honoré de Balzac (author), Albert Savarus, ch. 8:
2008 May 23, James Graff, "http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808953,00.html Lost: Labour's Love for Brown," Time (retrieved 22 April 2014):
puhekieltä A person, thing, or expedient used in a deceptive manner, to achieve some hidden purpose; a pretext or ruse.
1694, w:William Congreve|William Congreve, The Double-Dealer, act 2, sc. 4:
1833, w:James Fenimore Cooper|James Fenimore Cooper, The Headsman, ch. 29:
1992 May 25, "http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975597,00.html One for The Loggers," Time (retrieved 22 April 2014):
2008 Aug. 27, Kirk Johnson and w:Eric Lichtblau|Eric Lichtblau, "http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/us/politics/27plot.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0 Officials See No ‘Credible Threat’ to Obama in Racist Rants ," New York Times (retrieved 22 April 2014):