whipping boy 的定义
- a person who is made to bear the blame for another's mistake; scapegoat.
- a boy educated along with and taking punishment in place of a young prince or nobleman.
whipping boy 近义词
fall guy
更多whipping boy例句
- In the 90s, it kept gay men out of leadership roles in the Boy Scouts of America.
- This is Bey and Nicki at their most lyrically masochistic, and boy, is it a treat.
- Interviews in Serial (including ones from Adnan) do acknowledge that Jay was known as a resident bad boy at Woodlawn High School.
- The former Virginia governor was once the golden boy of the GOP.
- A sepia photo shows him as a young boy, head in his hands, with a large book open at a bar table.
- A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
- You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.
- Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
- A look of passion came into the face of the watching boy, and again he fingered his revolver.
- Several times after this the boy and his sisters came to look down into the pig pen.