Stalking-horse in a sentence as a noun

They don't just want to be a stalking-horse for a counter-offer from your current-employer, or your fall-back if another slower process falls through. How much time would you want to take to decide, and what new information would you have after that much time goes by?

Stalking-horse definitions

noun

a candidate put forward to divide the Opposition or to mask the true candidate

noun

something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

See also: pretext

noun

screen consisting of a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game

noun

a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game