All 4 Uses of
scapegoat
in
After the First Death
- If the attempt at rescue failed and more children were sacrificed than were saved, scapegoats had been set up to absorb the blame.†
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- The men involved were willing to assume the role of scapegoats.†
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- Was Judas, too, a scapegoat?†
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- The least of my fears was that I had volunteered to be one of the scapegoats if we met failure.†
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Definition:
someone blamed or punished for the errors of others
(editor's note: This expression comes from an ancient Jewish ritual in which the sins of the people were ritually transferred to a goat which was then driven into the desert away from the community.)