Smokescreen

Their fast talking is a smokescreen for their con artistry.

All his blathering about social issues is just a smokescreen to keep people from talking about his economic policy.

Ensign Whitely began to tell of the surprise encounter of Admiral Sprague’s escort-carrier force with the main battle line of the Japanese Navy off Samar, in a chaos of rain squalls and smoke screens.

C.I.E. Class "D14" 4-4-0 No. 89 covers its tracks with a magnificent smokescreen as it pulls out of Dun Laoghaire with the 9.0 a.m. boat train for Dublin.

However, before most of this was experimentally and observationally discovered, they were perhaps best known for their “almost unique” ability to squirt ink when harangued, creating a smokescreen before jetting off to safety.

All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say.

It was all very plausible and, as he poured out his smokescreen of words, I became fidgety for fear Fallon would be too direct with him.