inpolitics, someone whocompetesfor apositionthat they have nochanceofwinning, inordertodividetheoppositionto aparticulargroupor to takeattentionaway from anotherpersonwho thatgroupreallywantstowin.
This question is too serious to make the ex-service man or woman who is a pensioner astalkinghorse.
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I do not think we ought to use the working man as astalkinghorsefor this sort of thing.
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I have no notion of getting up and being made a sort ofstalkinghorsefor an attack upon one of my colleagues.
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I look upon this as astalkinghorsefor the main issue.
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We have nothing of our own and, in a sense, we are thestalkinghorsefor future unity.
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You will find that the public is thestalkinghorse, but nothing else.
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Is there to be astalkinghorseor not?
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It is only put forward as a sort ofstalkinghorse.
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Perhaps the realstalkinghorsewill come not this year, but next year.
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I make no secret of the fact that this has been an oldstalkinghorseof mine.
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Once again it is astalkinghorsefor something much more important.
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I am not persuaded that it is right to let a local authority, however powerful and resourceful, be thestalkinghorsefor that controversial issue.
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I turn to the favouritestalkinghorseof the party opposite—the capital gains tax.
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I do not believe that he is anyone's creature orstalkinghorse.
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They are using the circumstances of this discussion as astalkinghorse.
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