scapegoat
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scapegoat englanniksi
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.
(RQ:Tyndale Pentateuch)
(RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica); alluding herein unto the heart of man, and the precious bloud of our Saviour; who was typified indeed by the Goat that was ſlain, and the ſcape Goat in the wilderneſſe;
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''He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions ''and'' the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!''
{{quote-text|en|year=1834|author=Thomas Babington Macaulay|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2332|title=William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1975|author=Richard M. Harris; Adam Kendon; Mary Ritchie Key|title=Organization of Behavior in Face-to-face Interaction|page=66
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