English-Italian translations for scapegoat

capro espiatorioOggi le banche sono un facile capro espiatorio. Today, banks are easy scapegoats. Non possiamo accettare che sia un capro espiatorio a pagare per tutti, sebbene tale capro espiatorio sia un boia. We cannot allow one scapegoat to pay on behalf of everyone, even if that scapegoat is a butcher. È un esempio perfetto di sindrome da capro espiatorio. This is the classic scapegoat phenomenon.
capro emissario

In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed
Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else
To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of
To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim

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