English-Portuguese translations for scapegoat

  • bode expiatórioDeste modo, usam a Turquia como bode expiatório. They thus use Turkey as a scapegoat. Não podemos admitir que haja um bode expiatório, mesmo que esse bode expiatório seja um carrasco, um único bode expiatório, que pague por todos os outros. We cannot allow one scapegoat to pay on behalf of everyone, even if that scapegoat is a butcher. É o fenómeno clássico do bode expiatório. This is the classic scapegoat phenomenon.
  • fazer de bode expiatório

Definition of scapegoat

  • 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

Examples

  • He is making me a scapegoat.

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