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单词 to throw under the bus
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to throw (a person) under the bus
P2. colloquial (originally U.S.). to throw (a person) under the bus and variants: to abandon or betray (a person, esp. a colleague or friend) in order to protect or advance one's own interests; to make a scapegoat of.Quot. 1982 appears to be an isolated use of a similar metaphor.
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1982 Times 21 June 8/1 Mrs Thatcher..was in deep trouble and the lobbies hummed with the prospect of her departure. President Galtieri had pushed her under the bus which the gossips had said was the only means of her removal.]
1991 Colorado Springs Gaz. Tel. 12 Dec. b14/4 Dees said he talked to Hood after he bonded out of the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center on Sept. 26, 1990, and warned him ‘that he was being thrown under the bus by Jennifer Reali.’
1998 Roanoke (Virginia) Times (Nexis) 29 May b1 Saunders has been..critical of the board's treatment of Kent. ‘They threw him under a bus.’
2006 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 Apr. b9 Towers is having a bad month, but he was their best pitcher..last year and shouldn't be tossed under the bus so soon.
2014 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Mar. 18/1 Until 1870, when Napoleon III threw him under the bus out of political expediency, Haussmann transformed Paris from [etc.].
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