scapegoat

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Ducking your heads makes you a low-risk scapegoat.

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someone who is punished for the errors of others

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noun

someone who is punished for the errors of others

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noun

someone who is punished for the errors of others

Example sentences

Ducking your heads makes you a low-risk scapegoat.

With the jailbreak, they simply found a scapegoat that they hoped would take the heat off of them.

So they approve the plan, bring him on, and then when people don't like it, jettison him as a scapegoat.

It's well practiced, and designed with a variety of scapegoat clauses built in.

So, let's not wantonly scapegoat Excel for a process problem here.

That supports my theory that TicketMaster's primary reason for existence is to be a scapegoat.

I can't help but think all the libertarian hating is an attempt to find a new scapegoat in those places where Republicans have been all but eliminated.

Government can do all sorts of shit to you, but the worse that can happen is that someone somewhere as a scapegoat will be fired, or not re-elected, or not having a bonus in the end of a year.

Somewhere in the chain someone inadvertently gets word to the other 3-letter agencies, and the effect is magnified.... and every time it's escalated, people figure "well, the people below me wouldn't have escalated unless they had reason to" ... while at the same time thinking, "well, I'm not sure, but I'm also not going to be the scapegoat if I fail to neutralize a potential attack and something does happen.