stalking horse in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for stalking horse in the English»Bulgarian Dictionary

Translations for stalking horse in the English»Bulgarian Dictionary

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I.stalk2 [stɔːk] VB trans (follow)

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horse [hɔːs, Am hɔːrs] N zool, SPORTS

horse
кон m
to ride a horse
яздя кон
to put the cart before the horse
впрягам колата пред конете prov
to put the cart before the horse
обръщам нещата наопаки
to flog a dead horse
наливам от пусто в празно
to be on one's high horse inf
държа се надменно
to eat like a horse
ям като разпран
to hold one's horses inf
въздържам се
to change horses (in) midstream
правя излишни промени в неудобен момент
to get sth straight from the horse's mouth
черпя сведения направо от източника
don't look a gift horse in the mouth prov
на харизан кон зъбите не се гледат prov
you can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink prov
насила хубост не става prov

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The stalking horse candidate has some advantage for making the opening bid.
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The stalking horse pretends to be interested in a concept themselves, but in reality they are testing an idea for another.
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In business, the strategy is sometimes called a stalking horse bid, but the same principles apply.
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The preseason favorite can become the also-ran, and the player who gallops to an early lead can be caught by a stalking horse.
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The stalking horse of low alcohol is increasingly being exposed as just that.
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It will be interesting to see if it is a stalking horse for the rest of the industry or simply out there on its own.
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In some cases it has replaced the idiom stalking horse.
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The stalking horse appears to be acting for and as themselves, but there are others in the shadows.
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None of the presumed front-runners has emerged as a stalking horse for one or other of the two factions.
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But there was resistance to the move and initial suspicion that her candidacy was just a stalking horse for keeping his options open.
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