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scarecrow

/skair-kroh/US // ˈskɛərˌkroʊ //UK // (ˈskɛəˌkrəʊ) //

稻草人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
    • : anything frightening but not really dangerous.
    • : a person in ragged clothes.
    • : an extremely thin person.

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Examples

  • These include setting up electric fences, training a guard animal like a dog to warn you of any intruding bears, rigging motion-sensing strobe lights to go off when they detect a bear, placing scarecrows around your property, and many more.

  • The idea is that the mere presence of police should prevent people from committing crimes — a sort of scarecrow effect.

  • You should look like a scarecrow on the yellow-brick road, but you should also be warm by the time you are done.

  • It would be like if after the 40th pipe in Flappy Bird was a scarecrow.

  • There, the beloved characters would emerge: the Cowardly Lion singing about courage and the Scarecrow dancing with the crows.

  • It was rumored that Howard Stern would play Scarecrow and Madonna would play Harley Quinn.

  • There's no Judy Garland songs, no Scarecrow, no Tin Man, no Cowardly Lion.

  • His size 22 feet splayed out in front of him, he resembles an oversize version of the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.

  • It is at best but a worn-out scarecrow shaking its vain rags in the wind.

  • For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing, so are their gods of wood, and of silver, and laid over with gold.

  • "Silly," said Jehosophat, for he was older than Marmaduke and knew Mr. Scarecrow very well.

  • Woot watched this operation with much interest, for the Scarecrow's body was only a suit of clothes filled with straw.

  • The Scarecrow's head was a gunnysack filled with bran, on which the eyes, nose and mouth had been painted.