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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a scarecrow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a figure made of straw or other materials, typically placed in fields to deter birds from eating crops.
Example: "The farmer placed a scarecrow in the middle of the cornfield to protect his crops from the crows."
Alternatives: "a straw man" or "a field guardian".
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It looked like a scarecrow.
Like a scarecrow on a pole.
At first, he was thought to be a scarecrow.
The narrator's mother said she looked like a scarecrow.
Besides planting the garden, the girls built a scarecrow.
The exiled Stevenson was both a laird and a scarecrow.
"I look like a scarecrow," Ms. Namata said.
A scarecrow tries to lay eggs in the henhouse.
Do you think you're a scarecrow and I'm a crow?
Eli is "a scarecrow of a man in a secondhand suit," a "beast among lambs".
He isn't a side thought or a scarecrow or a bogeyman.
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