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smoke screen

noun

  1. a mass of dense smoke produced to conceal an area, vessel, or plane from the enemy.
  2. something intended to disguise, conceal, or deceive; camouflage.


smoke screen

noun

  1. military a cloud of smoke produced by artificial means to obscure movements or positions
  2. something said or done in order to hide the truth
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of smoke screen1

First recorded in 1910–15
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Compassionate care, in fact, is nothing more than a smoke screen intended to hide coercion, structural inequalities and governments’ lack of social responsibility.

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The company said panic buttons, alarms, smoke screens and security doors were all fitted at the shop.

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