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"a smokescreen for" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to use something to hide the truth or to distract from a real issue. Example: The politician's promise to increase funding for education was just a smokescreen for his true agenda of cutting taxes for the wealthy.
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Or a smokescreen for cuts?
It turned out to be a smokescreen for military preparations.
Or perhaps the "vision" always was a smokescreen for cuts.
Beijing believes that concept is merely a smokescreen for independence.
But really this is a smokescreen for Ukip's backers' intentions.
Camp 1: Apple's withdrawal is a smokescreen for Jobs being ill again.
Johnson said the decision was looking like "a smokescreen for a U-turn on Heathrow".
"White phosphorus is a weapon intended to provide a smokescreen for troop movements on the battlefield.
"This is a smokescreen for changing the law to the advantage of defendants".
"They are throwing up a smokescreen for their own inadequacies at enforcing the laws".
It was clearly just a smokescreen for the views of gun-hating liberals.
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