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What does scapegoat mean?
What does scapegoat mean?
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- It is when someone is blamed for the wrongdoings / mistakes of other people to suffer and to be punished in their place.
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- The detectives could not catch the real criminal so, they just arrested a poor homeless man as the scapegoat of the crime.
- The boy used his younger brother as a scapegoat in her mother's missing wallet.
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@hbnaaa so can i say.
we need an scapegoat so we can flee kut of the country
we need an scapegoat so we can flee kut of the country
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Yes, you can say that. Just a minor grammatical error and you're good to go. Great work! 😊
"We need a scapegoat so we can flee out of the country."
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@nevadan I quite don't understand. What do you mean by that?
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