Scapegoat came from ancient times when the people of the village would imprint their "sins" on a hapless goat and run it off a cliff; hence, the term came to mean blaming someone for other's faults. A martyr can be considered the scapegoat of the group he/she died for
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"Really? If that'd been Lindsay Thomas he'd have gone for a month. He's the definition of a scapegoat."
"Really? If that'd been Lindsay Thomas he'd have gone for a month. He's the definition of a scapegoat."
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Get the scapegoat mug.The United States of America. The country that gets blamed for basically everything that goes wrong, just because it's the solo super power.
Person 1 : Dude, global warming is fucking the world up...
Person 2: It's The World's Scapegoats' fault. The USA...
Person 2: It's The World's Scapegoats' fault. The USA...
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Get the Moral Scapegoat mug.The term used to describe the occurance in which traffic is moving 15mph more than it should, yet one car is going 20-30 mph faster, and therefore the one pulled over by the cops. In otherwords, when everyone is speeding, but the one speeding the most would be the 'scapegoat' speeder.
Person 1: "Dude I was going 70 in a 55 the other day but there was another guy that got busted doing 80."
Person2: "Good thing you had that scapegoat speeder!"
Person2: "Good thing you had that scapegoat speeder!"
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