straw man
straw man argument
man of straw , also: strawman

Have I to do with men of straw?

He will bum you alive as if you were men of straw.

Consequently your colleague in the consulship is a man of straw.

Now, my hearts of oak and men of straw, what do you say for the lot?

I shouted back to this man of straw.

Within, I feel, is a man of straw.

What if I should let him take his chance among the other men of straw and empty fellows who go bustling about the world?"

Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt.

What was the sense of so arranging things that anything really important should finally and absolutely depend on such a man of straw as himself?

"If the defendant be a man of straw, who is to pay the costs, Sir?" '

You are a man of straw, Shannow, he chided himself.

The king has no illusions; he clearly sees the sycophants and "men of straw" that surround him.

It was suggested that Tibni is a nickname meaning "man of straw".

This year Nanny had been idly working on the Man of Straw.

A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

Danning spun around helplessly and sprawled to the floor like a man of straw.

Flung as though he had been a man of straw, Lance Bolero was stunned and helpless.

Men of straw . . . He almost laughed.

They stood no chance; they turned tail and scattered, we plowing through them as if they had been men of straw.

But Nicolaes was a man of straw.

A man of straw.

The Man of Straw (1896) (Google books full text online)

He knew perfectly well that she despised him, considered him a braggart, a poseur, a man of straw.

Man of Straw is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Viking.

Man of Straw (1951)

Hey look, the same straw man back a third time.

I'm not sure you understand what a straw man argument is.

But the idea that the school system needs a manager is a straw man.

When they start building their whole argument on straw men, call them out.

Good for them, but this is a straw man argument.

One after another, we put up our straw men to be knocked down.

Well at least we have you here to build an appropriate straw man instead.

He set up a straw man and then attacked it.

So the straw man went there himself to get the belt.

Now the one thing in all the world that the straw man really feared was fire.

But perhaps this is simply a straw man, set up to be knocked down in later books.

We used a straw man for the contract and closing.

At the moment you've invented straw men on both sides.

"It's just another straw man not to do a contract."

"Thank you," said the straw man, and sat perfectly still for half an hour.

To criticize it as such is to shoot at straw men.

In the straw man approach, there are witnesses to the transfer.

Bet you cannot give any evidence for that ridiculous straw man.

It's a straw man asserted only to be knocked down.

The arrow punched home in the back of the straw man.

There were, to be sure, a few straw men among the lecture topics.

"What chance does a Straw Man have against the force of a strong wind?"

The rest of the article is a series of straw men.

Its legs tangled, then straightened as if it were a straw man.

And don't pull down straw men; he's got nothing to do with this.