scapegoat

noun · verbB2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

scapegoats

1.
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.
2.
Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions and the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!
Đồng nghĩa: fall guy, patsy, whipping boy

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

scapegoats

V_ing/Gerund

scapegoating

V_ed/pp

scapegoated

1.
(intransitive, transitive)To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

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Đồng nghĩa

fall guypatsywhipping boy

Cùng gốc / liên quan

scapegoatishscapegoatablescapegoater scapegoating scapegoatismblame Canadablameshiftescapelook for a dog to kicksacrificial lamb

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Nguồn gốc từ

From scape + goat; William Tyndale, interpreting עֲזָאזֵל (azazél) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from עֵז (goat) and אוזל (escapes). First attested 1530. Compare scapegrace, scapegallows.