stalking horse

Now the Antichrist may be a stalking horse for a different question: what it means, in some genetically stable sense, to be human.

The attack on subsidies is a stalking horse for their long-term project of killing Obamacare.

A Labour source said: "I've heard of a stalking horse, but this guy is going to get hoarse from his endless stalking."

Journalism is not a speed horse but more of a stalking horse that doesn’t go to the lead, leaving a lot of run left when he hits the homestretch.

Put it all together, and Kennedy’s performance raises urgent questions about whether he understands autism at all or is just using it as a stalking horse to promote his assertion that “environmental toxins” are the root of chronic diseases.