fall guy
noun/ˈfɔːl ɡaɪ/
/ˈfɔːl ɡaɪ/
(especially North American English)- a person who is blamed or punished for something wrong that another person has done synonym scapegoat
- He realized he’d been set up as the fall guy.
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