stalking horse

Second, there isn't any reason to believe that Obama is using Goldberg as a stalking horse against Netanyahu.

He used a third-party spoiler candidate in the race, Don Sprouse, as an anti-Semitic stalking horse.

Going into the vote, he was denounced as a stalking horse for the presidential aspirations of Barbour, the Mississippi governor.

Back in 2006, Patrick was seen as a stalking horse for Obama.

Butts had been introduced as a stalking-horse, but there was no doubt about Si's admiration of his "handiness."

It was the stalking horse behind which Offenbach hunted the follies of the day and bagged the absurdities of the hour.

For the same reason the passions are the main theme of poets and the stalking horse of actors.

"For my dough they've given up trying to find her and are using you for a stalking horse," he added with fiendish accuracy.

Better never profess than make profession a stalking horse to sin, deceit, the devil, and hell.'