Synonyms for stalking horse
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : staw-king-hawrs |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌstɔ kɪŋˌhɔrs |
Top 10 synonyms for stalking horse Other synonyms for the word stalking horse
- hundred-to-one shot
- hunting dog
- hunting horse
- improbability
- little chance
- little opportunity
- outside chance
- outside shot
- poor bet
- poor lookout
- poor possibility
- poor prognosis
- poor prospect
- rabbit hound
- slim chance
- small chance
- stalking horse
- unexpected winner
- unknown
- unknown quantity
- unlikelihood
- unlikely winner
- upsetter
Définition of stalking horse
- As in hunter : noun a dog or horse bred for hunting
- As in dark horse : noun remote possibility
- Both the others laughed heartily when they heard how shrewd old Uncle Fred made a stalking horse out of their stout chum.
- Extract from : « The Broncho Rider Boys on the Wyoming Trail » by Frank Fowler
- Equus, in fact, is not only the "show horse" of the doctrine of evolution, but also the "stalking horse."
- Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
- Inches lent the Afridi dignity, but dignity has often been used as a stalking horse for untruth.
- Extract from : « King--of the Khyber Rifles » by Talbot Mundy
- The first time that I saw him, I fancy Robert was pretty old already: he had certainly begun to use his years as a stalking horse.
- Extract from : « Memories and Portraits » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The bringing forward of the game question has been merely the trotting out of a stalking horse.
- Extract from : « The Celtic Magazine, Vol I, No. IV, February 1876 » by Various
- It was the stalking horse behind which Offenbach hunted the follies of the day and bagged the absurdities of the hour.
- Extract from : « Kentucky in American Letters, v. 1 of 2 » by John Wilson Townsend
- For the same reason the passions are the main theme of poets and the stalking horse of actors.
- Extract from : « The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, A Dialogue, Etc. » by Arthur Schopenhauer
- "For my dough they've given up trying to find her and are using you for a stalking horse," he added with fiendish accuracy.
- Extract from : « Modus Vivendi » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- Better never profess than make profession a stalking horse to sin, deceit, the devil, and hell.'
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
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