Englisch-Spanisch Übersetzung für scapegoat

chivo expiatorioEl señor Buttiglione era el chivo expiatorio. Mr Buttiglione was the scapegoat. Este es un clásico fenómeno del chivo expiatorio. This is the classic scapegoat phenomenon. La expansión no debe servir de chivo expiatorio. Expansion must not be used as a scapegoat.
cabeza de turcoUtilizan así a Turquía como cabeza de turco. They thus use Turkey as a scapegoat. Tenemos que evitar que este país se convierta en cabeza de turco. We have to be careful not to set the country up as too much of a scapegoat. Los estados en crisis suelen buscar un cabeza de turco, en el caso de Rusia, los chechenos. States in crisis are keen to find a scapegoat - in Russia's case the Chechens.

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

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