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Vocabulary
convenient scapegoats
What does "convenient scapegoats" means?
Does that mean make * scapegoats very conveniently ?
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Does that mean make * scapegoats very conveniently ?
Thank you
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Sort of, I suppose. They are nearby or handy and they would be good scapegoats.
- Sort of, I suppose.
- They are nearby or handy and they would be good scapegoats.
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Sort of, I suppose. They are nearby or handy and they would be good scapegoats.
Sort of, I suppose. They are nearby or handy and they would be good scapegoats.
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A scapegoat is someone you hold responsible for something, who probably isn't responsible for it at all. A fall guy.
Now people or societies which make scapegoats out of people, are, in the view of the person speaking, reprehensible. To accuse someone of making a scapegoat of someone, is to accuse them of having the morals of the lynch-mob.
Now if, on top of that, you say that
Now people or societies which make scapegoats out of people, are, in the view of the person speaking, reprehensible. To accuse someone of making a scapegoat of someone, is to accuse them of having the morals of the lynch-mob.
Now if, on top of that, you say that
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