man of straw

“I am but a man of straw, Arthur,” he said.

At the hearing today, Mr Justice Moor criticised the couple and said Mr Young was "hiding the truth" and was not "a penniless man of straw with huge debts".

"A man of straw is worth a woman of gold."

"A man of straw," cried Anna, with unfeeling levity; "no such creature in the world, I do assure you!"

Our travellers returned to the city by the way of Montreal and Lake Champlain; nor was it until Julia had been the happy wife of Charles Weston for more than a year, that she could summon resolution to own that she had once been in love, like thousands of her sex, "with a man of straw!"