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What is a smokescreen?

What is a smokescreen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
  2. Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.
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It's another smokescreen to cover earlier learned assurances that the Australians were a bunch of pie eaters.
They thought that it was a smokescreen to disguise the movement forwards of German troops.
Massive write downs under the smokescreen of a new CEO will only demonstrate the old guard's failings and bring their tenure into question.
I respond by cutting through the smokescreen and getting to the real facts, which they are hiding from you.
Sieuraj knocked Government's push for the passage of the police reform bills which he described as public relations tactics and a smokescreen.
The effect is to blow away the smokescreen that Big Tobacco created to conceal its darker nature.

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