"Stalking-Horse" is a word in ENGLISH

stalking-horse ENGLISH
Definition:

Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project;
a mask; a pretense.

stalking-horse ENGLISH
Definition:

A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind
which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.

Few words of positivity

How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.

George Eliot, Adam Bede

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coachfellow ENGLISH

One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade.

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