a man of straw

(British, American & Australian) also a straw man (American)

a person or an idea that is weak and easy to defeat Compared to their illustrious predecessors, the country's leaders seem to be men of straw.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Morgan (2)	-	Arthurian Romance
Odovacar	o-do-VAY-kər (English)	Ancient Germanic
Temperance	TEM-prənts, TEM-pər-ənts	English (Archaic)
Cynefrith	-	Anglo-Saxon (Latinized)
Walburga	-	German
Ilda	-	Italian