stalking horse

The first two with the guns had been stalking horses.

So, too, was the presence of a serious challenger rather than another stalking horse.

"Some of them would like to be stalking horses, but we don't really need one."

The loser in the exercise appears to be the stalking horse.

"I think you are master here and she is your stalking horse.

They dressed the hostages up like bad guys, and used them as stalking horses.

The stalking horse appears to be acting for and as themselves, but there are others in the shadows.

He was too innocent to be a stalking horse.

And who would be her stalking horse, to lay the case before you, in that event?"

Now that they had their stalking horse, their reliable human, anything was possible.

He wants us for a stalking horse for some scheme.

"He has made me his stalking horse," she whispered hoarsely.

In some cases it has replaced the idiom "stalking horse".

"We're not using the Olympics as a stalking horse for a stadium," the adviser said.

Critics began to say that religion was merely a stalking horse for his political agenda.

Mr. Singleton does not see himself as a stalking horse.

From his point of view, the plans were pretty clever, using others to be his stalking horse.

You had also to have a stalking horse.

Like the stalking horse, the means is to use a spurious debate to provoke a real one.

Was she just using the Nuyyad as a stalking horse?

That suggested Stalking Horse was very important, given the strength of her own task force.

"They're using these noble yeomen of American small business as a stalking horse for the very rich."

The Stalking Horse was only about five minutes long.

Animals trained for this purpose were called stalking horses.

Like a stalking horse, smokescreens are used to screen and mask an attack.