cortina de humo

Spanish

Noun

cortina de humo f (plural cortinas de humo)

1. smokescreen (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle)
2. (idiomatic) smokescreen (anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract)

Further reading

• “cortina de humo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28