fall guy

The other is why did they want me to be their fall guy?

If anything went wrong, he knew who the fall guy would be.

A dead man is the best fall guy in the world.

And if she needed a fall guy, you were it.

Why, the public is the fall guy in all this.

How many were willing to be fall guys to find out?

"He's the fall guy for what everybody else did wrong in this case."

Then I become the fall guy in order to get the letters out on time.

In the film industry, a fall guy is a form of stock character.

"I thought he was supposed to be the fall guy."