dead catting

Verb

dead cat (third-person singular simple present dead cats, present participle dead catting, simple past and past participle dead catted)

1. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To announce (something) as a dead cat; to raise an issue as a political distraction.
   • Long picked scars and carefully nurtured injustices can serve a purpose, and we can see it in Obrador's dead catting, the narrative of Brexit, the saga of the Falkland Islands, the Greek financial crisis, and independence movements in democratic nations across Europe.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 170

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