Englisch- Übersetzung für scapegoat
Definition für scapegoat
- 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
- To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of
- To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim
Anwendungsbeispiele
- He is making me a scapegoat.
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