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a fall guy (mainly American, informal) someone who is blamed for another person's mistake or crime. The book claims Lee Harvey Oswald didn't kill President Kennedy - he was just the fall guy. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The moneyed polluting industries, of course, would rather not get caught, so there are other (poorer) fall guys (the fishing industry, for example) to take the heat for dumping the ink into the goldfish bowl. While the presidential candidates run around trying to blame the Los Angeles riots on LBJ and poverty on Reagan, New York had found its own fall guys - landlords. They were simply the fall guys for City Hall's long-standing practices of ripping off the public, most often using its bottomless money pit, the Department of Water and Power. |
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