whipping boy in English
noun
1
a person who is blamed or punished for the faults or incompetence of others.
Of course, you are an innocent victim, the whipping boy to be punished for other people's crimes.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "whipping boy" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "whipping boy", or refer to the context using the word "whipping boy" in the English Dictionary.
1. 16 He has become a convenient whipping boy for the failures of the old regime.
2. I am tired of being used as the whipping-boy for all the mistakes that are made in the office.
3. Edward's biographer Philip Magnus suggests that Gladstone may have become a whipping-boy for the King's general irritation with the Liberal government.