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smoke screen
noun
- a mass of dense smoke produced to conceal an area, vessel, or plane from the enemy.
- something intended to disguise, conceal, or deceive; camouflage.
smoke screen
noun
- military a cloud of smoke produced by artificial means to obscure movements or positions
- something said or done in order to hide the truth
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of smoke screen1
Example Sentences
The fact is that Trump’s gripe about those in the press pool is just a smoke screen to humiliate, belittle and control the press.
Some critics have also accused the authorities of using the controversy as a smoke screen to divert attention from other pressing problems - like unemployment and pollution.
But that’s a smoke screen, since leading medical associations and physicians involved with pediatric and adolescent care support the therapies outlawed by the states as the legitimate standard of care for their patients.
Compassionate care, in fact, is nothing more than a smoke screen intended to hide coercion, structural inequalities and governments’ lack of social responsibility.
The company said panic buttons, alarms, smoke screens and security doors were all fitted at the shop.
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