| 单词 | a face of straw |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa face of straw e. man of straw: (a) a person or thing compared to a straw image; a counterfeit, sham, ‘dummy’; similarly, a face of straw, etc.; (b) an imaginary adversary, or an invented adverse argument, adduced in order to be triumphantly confuted; (c) a person of no substance, esp. one who undertakes a pecuniary responsibility without having the means of discharging it; (d) a fictitious or irresponsible person fraudulently put forward as a surety or as a party in an action. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > something false or forged falsehood1340 counterfeiture1548 forgery1574 bastard1581 man of straw1599 counterfeit1613 imitationa1616 mock1646 pasteboard1648 sophistication1664 imposture1699 fraud1725 sham1728 adulteration1756 falsity1780 duff1781 shim-sham1797 shammy1822 Hodge-razor1843 pinchbeck1847 shice1859 cook-up1865 postiche1876 fakery1880 fake1883 bogosity1893 spuriosity1894 dud1897 cluck1904 rake-up1957 bodgie1988 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > arguments for or against > argument against > instance of con1590 man of straw1599 antistrophon1611 why-not1611 againsta1817 counter-argument1862 society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > failure to meet obligations > one who deficient1697 lame duck1761 defaulter1808 man of straw1823 waddler1831 shicer1896 skip1915 shyster1938 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun] > fictitious person put forward as party man of straw1885 1599 1st Pt. Return fr. Parnassus i. i. 231 [He] braggs..of his liberalitie to schollers..: but indeed he is a meere man of strawe, a great lumpe of drousie earth. 1615 S. Daniel Hymens Triumph ii. i, in Wks. (1623) 283 Idolatrize not so that Sexe, but hold A man of strawe more then a wife of gold [= Fr. proverb: ‘Un homme de paille vaut une femme d'or’]. 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 92 To skirmish with a man of straw of his owne making. 1652 R. Saunders Balm 82 He..strikes at randome at a man of straw. 1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife iv. 67 I will not be your drudge by day, to squire your wife about, and be your man of straw, or scare-crow only to Pyes and Jays; that would be nibling at your forbidden fruit. 1677 2nd Pacquet Advices to Men of Shaftesbury 52 I rather suppose the Some that say so never were men of God's making, but mere men of straw set up by Master Bencher, for a Tryal of his own Skill in Confutation. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. 508 The Verity of all such Suppositions denied, off drops the Vizor, and a Face of Straw appears. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 323 What is this but placing the essence of virtue in her outside, making her a man of straw, an empty covering containing nothing within? 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 167 ‘Man of straw’, a bill-acceptor, without property—‘no assets’. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxi. 221 If the defendant be a man of straw, who is to pay the costs, Sir? 1840 T. De Quincey Style: No. II in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 395/1 It is always Socrates and Crito, or Socrates and Phædrus..in fact, Socrates and some man of straw or good-humoured nine-pin set up to be bowled down as a matter of course. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. ii. 67 But no man can dispense with the aid of a living antagonist, free from all suspicion of being a man of straw. 1885 Law Times' Rep. 53 484/1 The real plaintiff may assign his interest to a man of straw, and in such a case the court will require security to be given. < as lemmas |
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