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Meanings of whipping boy in anglès

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Someone who is punished for the errors of others.

tapaforats

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

Synonyms
Examples for "punching bag"
Examples for "punching bag"
1
I walked over to the heavy punching bag and started hitting it.
My Fight/Your Fight
2
I just don't like seeing a kid used as a punching bag.
Running scared
3
I'll need to find a new hobby, a new punching bag.
Within arm's reach
4
Someone's used this kid as a punching bag for a very long time.
Monday Mourning
5
Baron Waqa accused the foreign media of using Nauru as a punching bag.
Radio NZ
Usage of whipping boy in anglès
1
The NRA is reluctant to become a whipping boy for Government failures.
The Irish Times
2
Not to mention being Sadie's whipping boy, he confessed, his voice harsh.
Darkness unleashed
3
Yet he's become a whipping boy as election day approaches.
Wired
4
I know why he suffered through being Warner's whipping boy.
Shatter Me
5
Unsurprisingly, Trenberth is a favorite whipping boy for climate skeptics.
Wired
6
By now, the global ticket-selling giant is probably accustomed to its whipping boy status.
The Irish Times
7
These problems need much larger solutions, and PMQs shouldn't become the whipping boy for them.
The Guardian
8
Daniel said: Nick Clegg has become a whipping boy.
The Guardian
9
That's why you can't use the Abu Sayyaf as a whipping boy in the south.
Reuters
10
Since Irish fiscal policy began, capital spending has been the whipping boy for current expenditure.
The Irish Times
11
Everyone's favorite cinematic whipping boy, Uwe Boll, bottomed out with four movies on the list.
Wired
12
Darius Boyd has been the whipping boy in Brisbane for the past couple of seasons.
News.com.au
13
Sure, Moussa Sissoko is the main whipping boy at White Hart Lane at the moment.
The Guardian
14
Clearly, I was going to be everybody's whipping boy tonight, a complete waste of protoplasm.
Dexter is Delicious: A Novel
15
Fouts had used Terrace as a whipping boy while promoting Project Washoe and his own work.
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
16
Including Barnaby FitzPatrick, who is his whipping boy.
The lady elizabeth
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