stalking horse

The Christian right opposition to Plan B is a stalking horse for banning all hormonal contraception.

The 15-week ban was always a stalking horse for a total ban.

"This is not a stalking horse for rate regulation. Nope. No how, no way," the chair said in October.

For a time, that stalking horse was “inflation,” but the price increases cooled, and Biden got four years older, so here we are.

In their 12-page filing, the prosecutors dismissed as a “conspiracy theory” a separate claim that Mr. Trump has raised in his own defense — that Mr. Biden had “secretly directed” the classified documents case and used the special counsel who filed the indictment, Jack Smith, as a “puppet” and a “stalking horse.”