He is your scapegoat. They have a scapegoating problem.
You are blaming the supplier, a convenient scapegoat.
I criticize him not because he makes mistakes but because he constantly looks for a scapegoat to take the blame for them.I criticize him not because he makes mistakes but because he constantly looks for a scapegoat to take the blame for them.
The word scapegoat comes from the English translation of the Hebrew word azazel. Traditional interpretations for this word have been â??the sender away of sinsâ?? and â??the goat that departs.â??
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He was made the scapegoat for the team's failure, even though he wasn't responsible for the mistakes.
Yes; scapegoats is fine.
The word "scapegoat" is sometimes used in that sense.
oh look that senator used his daughter as a scapegoat. (no particular senator. this could aply to just about any of them.)
The word is scapegoat.
The word "Lilliputian" comes from the fictional island of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." "Scapegoat" has its origins in the Bible, specifically from the practice of transferring sins to a goat that was then driven into the wilderness as part of the Day of Atonement ritual.
Such a person is a scapegoat.
The man was a scapegoat for his friend.Scapegoat-someone punished for the errors of othersbasically it's like a person taking the blame for someone else's wrong doings.