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fall guy

noun

Definitions

  1. One who is gullible and easily duped.

  2. A scapegoat.

    • Marples, who later fled to Monaco to escape prosecution for fraud, was the driving force behind The Reshaping of British Railways report published on March 27 1963. Dr Richard Beeching [who wrote the report] was just his fall guy.

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