Re: [kidsUI] Alfredo's idea

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Terry Hancock wrote:
> 
>   BTW, I think the expression is "stocking horse" (as in,
> made of stockings, therefore not real) not "stalking horse".  
> That's sort of a funny image, though. :D
> 
Not to be too pedantic about it, but here's the etymology of stalking 
horse, from Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:

Stalking-horse   A mask to conceal some design; a person put forward to 
mislead; a sham.  Fowlers used to conceal themselves behind horses, and 
went on stalking step  by step till they got within shot of the game.   
N. B. To /stalk/  is to walk with strides, from the Anglo-Saxon /stælcan./ 
.He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of 
that he shoots his wit..- /Shakespeare: As You Like It,/ v 4.

I probably misused the phrase, since I meant more of a test-bed for our 
ideas, but it's a real phrase.  In case you can't tell, I enjoy learning 
the etymology of idomatic phrases. :-)

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