Usually means: Person with weak or flawed arguments.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. man of_straw: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. man of_straw: Collins English Dictionary
  3. man of_straw: Wordnik
  4. man of_straw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. man of_straw: Wiktionary
  6. Man of straw, man of_straw: Dictionary.com
  7. Man of_Straw (album), Man of Straw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Man of Straw: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. man of_straw: Free Dictionary
  10. man of_straw: Dictionary/thesaurus
  11. Man of straw: World Wide Words

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  1. Man of straw: Legal dictionary
  2. Man of straw: Financial dictionary
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  1. Man of straw: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (man of straw)

noun:  A weak person.
noun:  One who is financially irresponsible.
noun:  A person put in the front of some business, but who is not really responsible.
noun:  A tactic used in debates and arguments where a weaker thesis is substituted for the opponent's real proposition, this thesis then being refuted, thereby creating the illusion of winning the argument against the original proposition.

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