英语词汇“whipping boy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

whipping boy

noun

A person who is blamed or punished for the faults or incompetence of others: I may end up as the whipping boy if things go wrong...

Of course, you are an innocent victim, the whipping boy to be punished for other people's crimes.
It's tempting to blame those familiar whipping boys: television and the movies.
It is always easy to blame the politicians, they have become our favourite whipping boys, but we are just as guilty as them in our failure to examine social phenomena rigorously.

Extended use of the original term (mid 17th century) denoting a boy educated with a young prince or other royal person and punished instead of him.

单词	whipping boy
释义	whipping boy noun A person who is blamed or punished for the faults or incompetence of others: I may end up as the whipping boy if things go wrong... Of course, you are an innocent victim, the whipping boy to be punished for other people's crimes. It's tempting to blame those familiar whipping boys: television and the movies. It is always easy to blame the politicians, they have become our favourite whipping boys, but we are just as guilty as them in our failure to examine social phenomena rigorously. Origin Extended use of the original term (mid 17th century) denoting a boy educated with a young prince or other royal person and punished instead of him.
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