whipping boy

Like the world, he needed a whipping boy too, if only himself.

She had not wanted to give up her favorite whipping boy.

God, we've gone so long as your whipping boy, but now you've done it good.

It is no fun being a target, a whipping boy.

Besides being everybody's whipping boy, he was too new to join any team.

He'd be back in the game again, a player, and no one's whipping boy.

One would like to believe coaches do not sit around thinking, "Who can be my whipping boy?"

And please notice that Earth is being used as a whipping boy in this.

He was selected to be the whipping boy for a noble child of his age.

Working mums are the whipping boy for all society's problems.

Whipping boys for doctors to call lazy and such like.

And being the world's whipping boy isn't a lot of fun.

Opinion writers seem to need him as a favorite whipping boy.

If nothing else, Freud has proved to be a great whipping boy for our time.

"Trade and globalization have become the whipping boys for these issues, whether they are related or not."

The object was to learn from mistakes, not look for whipping boys.

The fundamental fact is that the West can no longer serve as the "whipping boy" of the third world.

It could become a whipping boy for environmentalists based on its appearance alone.

A whipping boy or "fall guy" is a form of scapegoat.

That's very fair" to say he was the whipping boy.

"There is a sense of whipping boy when people talk about Nintendo," he said.

"Teachers are getting better salaries, but they've ended up being everybody's whipping boy," he said.

"The Clinton administration has found the gun lobby to be an excellent whipping boy," he said.

The first two are perennial whipping boys and it's hard to love a subway.

"I came to help, not to be a whipping boy," he said sharply.