stalking-horse in English

noun
1
a screen traditionally made in the shape of a horse behind which a hunter can stay concealed when stalking prey.
To creep upon the birds, however, it is often best, whatever the weapon, to employ a stalking horse - a curious affair of stuffed canvas painted like a horse;the fowler puts it in front of him and the ducks swimming in the pool are never scared at the gradual approach of a harmless animal; then "crack! sounds the caliver and you can pick up the dead birds on the water.
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1. 10 London has been seen as Washington's stalking horse.

2. 11 He was too innocent to be a stalking horse.

3. 6 The possibility of another stalking horse challenge this autumn cannot be ruled out.

4. I think the development is a stalking horse for exploitation of the surrounding countryside.

5. 1 I think the development is a stalking horse for exploitation of the surrounding countryside.

6. It never bodes good when she looks like that; she's using the girl as a stalking horse.

7. 30 And so standards, in engineering, were not seen as the stalking-horse for some elitist social agenda.

8. Cirque entered a "stalking horse" bid from its largest backers, including a mix of multinational private equity firms from the United States, China and Canada for $420 million