launch pad

Definitions

1. The surface or structure from which a launch is made.
2. A starting point.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch⟳ pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot⟳ up shuls.”

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