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Apparently it is derived from Jewish mythology from when a departing goat was blamed for the ills from whence it came.

Thus also comes the contemporary deffinition: one who is blamed for the wrongs of others, it is inter-changeable with the Americanism 'fall guy'; the scapegoat can be one of a group of guilty people, but is the one to take the blame.

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