SACRIFICIAL LAMB


Meaning of SACRIFICIAL LAMB in English

(~s)

If you refer to someone as a ~, you mean that they have been blamed unfairly for something they did not do, usually in order to protect another more powerful person or group.

He was a ~ to a system that destroyed him.

= scapegoat

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