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Someone who is punished for the errors of others.

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        A person who is continually target of mean jokes and/or bad treatment and towards whom anger is directed.

              Ús de whipping boy en anglès
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              The NRA is reluctant to become a whipping boy for Government failures.
              The Irish Times
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              Not to mention being Sadie's whipping boy, he confessed, his voice harsh.
              Darkness unleashed
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              Yet he's become a whipping boy as election day approaches.
              Wired
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              I know why he suffered through being Warner's whipping boy.
              Shatter Me
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              Unsurprisingly, Trenberth is a favorite whipping boy for climate skeptics.
              Wired
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              By now, the global ticket-selling giant is probably accustomed to its whipping boy status.
              The Irish Times
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              These problems need much larger solutions, and PMQs shouldn't become the whipping boy for them.
              The Guardian
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              Daniel said: Nick Clegg has become a whipping boy.
              The Guardian
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              That's why you can't use the Abu Sayyaf as a whipping boy in the south.
              Reuters
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              Since Irish fiscal policy began, capital spending has been the whipping boy for current expenditure.
              The Irish Times
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              Everyone's favorite cinematic whipping boy, Uwe Boll, bottomed out with four movies on the list.
              Wired
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              Darius Boyd has been the whipping boy in Brisbane for the past couple of seasons.
              News.com.au
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              Sure, Moussa Sissoko is the main whipping boy at White Hart Lane at the moment.
              The Guardian
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              Clearly, I was going to be everybody's whipping boy tonight, a complete waste of protoplasm.
              Dexter is Delicious: A Novel
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              Fouts had used Terrace as a whipping boy while promoting Project Washoe and his own work.
              Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
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              Including Barnaby FitzPatrick, who is his whipping boy.
              The lady elizabeth
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