bogeywoman

How real is this bogeywoman?

But the Bush administration seems content to raise the bogeywoman of feminism to roll back athletic progress instead of confronting facts honestly.

Fathers 4 Justice targeted Hodge because she was the "bogeywoman of family law, who doesn't even believe in equal parenting".

This was a bogeywoman created by the feminists and the media in order to defeat targeted candidates by generating diversionary news stories that forced them to talk about non-issues instead of real issues.

I concentrated on the help I could offer, went to work re- establishing rapport, giving the children time to ventilate, then introducing them to their bogeywoman: telling them Holly Burden's name, the few facts I knew about her.

Some are based on a wrong premise: I remember a Labour one in 1979 which pre-supposed that the world would think Mrs Thatcher was a bogeywoman and said something like: 'The day you forgot to vote, Mrs Thatcher became the next prime minister.'

Stephen Rivers, who has worked for politically active stars including Jane Fonda, recalled the 1988 Senate campaign in New Jersey, where the Republican, Pete Dawkins, was under fire for exaggerating his war record, and successfully changed the topic by invoking Ms. Fonda as the ultimate liberal antiwar bogeywoman.