0 in politics, someone who competes for a position that they have no chance of winning, in order to divide the opposition to a particular group or to take attention away from another person who that group really wants to win.
Regional collaboration is important because it will provide better value, but it is not a stalking horse for regional police forces.
This question is too serious to make the ex-service man or woman who is a pensioner a stalking horse.
I do not think we ought to use the working man as a stalking horse for this sort of thing.
I have no notion of getting up and being made a sort of stalking horse for an attack upon one of my colleagues.
I look upon this as a stalking horse for the main issue.
We have nothing of our own and, in a sense, we are the stalking horse for future unity.
You will find that the public is the stalking horse, but nothing else.
Is there to be a stalking horse or not?