WHIPPING BOY


Meaning of WHIPPING BOY in English

( whipping boys)

If someone or something is a whipping boy for a particular situation, they get all the blame for it.

He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.

= scapegoat

N-COUNT

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