fall guy
Dictionary
noun
- One who is gullible and easily duped.
Synonyms:patsy
noun
- In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
- Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
"He is making me a scapegoat."
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