fall guy

noun

Meaning

One who is gullible and easily duped.
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.
Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

mug(English)soft touch(English)chump(English)fool(English)schlemiel(English)mark(English)sucker(English)shlemiel(English)

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