Fortunately, no such handy scapegoat was available in Bootle.

She wanted to lash out at someone, and William's disclosures had simply provided her with a handy scapegoat.

Baseball is a handy scapegoat, though not innocent, because of Jose Canseco's book.

He'd have to convince everyone that crone Yablonsky had concocted the whole thing, tried to use him as a handy scapegoat to cover up her own incompetence.

Or maybe it was the fabled food at the Open, always a handy scapegoat when somebody has a bad day.

But the comics are a handy, obvious, uncomplicated scapegoat.

The regime, meanwhile, would use America as a handy scapegoat for China's floundering economy.

By blaming witches, religious authorities provided a handy scapegoat for those who might otherwise question God's goodness.

Your spouse is a handy scapegoat for stress-related problems that really have nothing to do with him or her.

Immigrants are just a handy scapegoat with which to gain votes and thus power.