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Fall guy (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Ging@anarchist.nexus to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Fall guy is a colloquial phrase that refers to a person to whom blame is deliberately and falsely attributed in order to deflect blame from another party.

A related term was "patsy", which typically (but not exclusively) referred to someone set up before the fact to take a fall, as opposed to simply being left "holding the bag" when something went wrong in carrying out a crime.

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