His lawyers will argue that he was set up as a fall guy for crimes he had no part in.
the sandlot ball players wanted the littlest kid to be the fall guy for the broken window, figuring that he'd have the best chance of escaping punishment
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National security adviser Michael Waltz emerges as a potential fall guy in the Signal group chat fallout.—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2025 The Jacksonville Jaguars sacked Super Bowl-winning coach Doug Pederson on Monday in the NFL’s dark annual ritual of finding fall guys after the regular season came to an end Sunday night.—David K. Li, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025 Watching England as a non-white person can come with the fear that with many of the national team’s historic defeats comes a fall guy.—Carl Anka, The Athletic, 8 July 2024 Post-failure, Lumi is the subject of a government inquest, and Pierpoint has to send a representative who will act as the bank’s face and potential fall guy.—Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for fall guy
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