0 past simple and past participle of dangle --
1 to hang loosely, or to hold something so that it hangs loosely: --
Thus, the great myth is being dangled before my constituents that somehow this development will create an enormous amount of employment.
In one case the falls jammed in the davits and the boat dangled over the water.
That project was dangled before the city, only to be shown to be a rotten apple as soon as we examined it.
One of the carrots dangled before us is that of greater freedom for local authorities, but we have not yet been told what it is.
There have been persistent rumours, like a kind of continuous mirage dangled before the people, of interest rate cuts coming but never quite arriving.
We have heard a great deal about the stick, but not even a nuance of mousse of carrot has been dangled in front of us.
Here would be a "divi" dangled in front of people.
The regional authorities that are envisaged will not raise the money to support the ambitions that are dangled before the people of this country.
