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scapegoatism
escape
error
buck
take fall
sin
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joe soap
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throw under bus
blameshift
imbued
usual suspects
stool pigeon
Definitions:
Noun
Definition: 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.
Verb
Definition: To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.