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The thing you're meant to notice so you miss the thing that matters.
means A fake lure or decoy — something designed to attract attention or imitate the real target in order to trap, distract, or mislead.
from Likely from Dutch 'de kooi' meaning 'the cage,' used for the cleverly tunneled ponds and netted traps Dutch hunters built to lure ducks into capture — a technique English wildfowlers borrowed along with the word, around the early 1600s. Some trace it instead to Dutch 'kooi' from Latin 'cavea,' meaning cage or enclosure — same picture of confinement, slightly different road to get there.
- origin
- from Dutch for the cage, de kooi
- marketing trick
- overpriced option exists to sell the middle one
- nature's version
- some frogs sacrifice a toe to escape
- duck hunting
- wooden decoys are prized as folk art now