How To Use fall guy In A Sentence
- Principals might not be surprised to hear that often they are the fall guys for school boards who bargain away management power.
- Behind the media smokescreens are people whose involvement has been documented and exposed, but there is always some African fall guy-the 'embraceable' black subordinate or 'rebel' commander-charged with war crimes and used to deflect attention from the leaders of organized white-collar crime networks. Dissident Voice
- But unlike its etymological cousins, "scapegoat" and "fall guy," the phrase suggests a degree of intimacy between the blamer and the blamed. ‘Under the Bus’
- ‘The focus is on scapegoats and fall guys, as though remedial action amounts to handing the public a few heads on a platter.’
- Someday these bozos are going to figure out that it doesn't pay to try to set the CIA up as the fall guys.
- The governor was looking for a fall guy to take the blame for the corruption scandal.
- I mean, he was the fall guy for Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra debacle, and you've got to be pretty dumb to get out-politicked by an Alzheimers sufferer. -
- Browne claims that the company was simply looking for a fall guy.
- He claims he was made the fall guy for the affair.
- He will not play again this season, but it is easy to cast him as a fall guy in a violent business that ice hockey seems to encourage.
