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I laughed, but noThe term straw man is an idiom that mean the same thing, but one is primarily a British term and one is primarily an American term.
A straw man is someone who has no substance or someone who is unreliable. This term is also used to denote something that is a decoy or coverup for an unethical or criminal enterprise.
The term straw man dates back to the 1500's which had a literal meaning, describing an effigy used to practice combat or a scarecrow used in a field to frighten away birds.
By the 1620s, an imaginary foe was in use in Britain.
The idiom straw man came into use in America in the mid-1800s.
And by 2020 straw man was brought into Australia on the kennel by an alien named MacGyver who tried to save the world from climate combustion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man