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| fall guy; punchball; whipping boy (о человеке, несущем наказание за чужую вину); the drudge of the household; glutton for punishment (hothouse); punchbag; a whipping boy (Anglophile); a sacrificial goat (JaneSmith); can carrier; can-carrier; escape goat; scape goat | |||
| punching bag | |||
| patsy (тж. см. fall guy Taras) | |||
| scapegoat (In the Old Testament ritual of Yom Kippur, a goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the Jewish people. Lv:16:8-10) | |||
| placeholder (тот, на ком срывают злость за неприятности, причинённые другими Bartek2001) | |||
| someone's pet aversion (у кого-либо) | |||
| scapegoat | |||
| salamander; plug | |||
| lightning rod (Yeldar Azanbayev) | |||
| scape goat (E.g. Wow, Ted Cruz was disloyal to his very capable director of communication. He used him as a scape goat – fired like a dog! (c) Donald Trump's tweet arturmoz scapegoat [без пробела] Andrew Goff) | |||
| wicker man (fragilistic) | |||
| George (шутл. MichaelBurov) | |||
| dumb bunny (Nuto4ka) | |||
| can-carrier; fall guy; goat; Dump bunny ("Jackson turned to be guilty. He is always a dumb bunny!" – "А виноватым оказался Джексон, постоянный козел отпущения!" Franka_LV) | |||
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| the butt of the joke (seniyakseniya) | |||
| козёл отпущения: 39 phrases in 9 subjects |
| Bible | 1 |
| Education | 1 |
| Figure of speech | 1 |
| General | 12 |
| Idiomatic | 20 |
| Makarov | 1 |
| Nautical | 1 |
| Psychology | 1 |
| Rhetoric | 1 |