How to Use fall guy in a Sentence

fall guy

noun

• His lawyers will argue that he was set up as a fall guy for crimes he had no part in.
• Consumers have been the fall guy for the past 30 years.
  — Natalie Rademacher, Twin Cities, 9 Dec. 2019
• If everyone was in the loop, who’s gonna be the fall guy?
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 21 Nov. 2019
• The steroid era did not even produce a fall guy within the sport.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• Sneader failed to set up a fall guy and therefore had to take the fall himself.
  — George Bradt, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Explain why, and how, in your view, the hunting guide, Theo Bronkhorst, became the fall guy.
  — National Geographic, 28 Apr. 2018
• Brown looked like the obvious fall guy when things fell apart.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• Love was a fall guy when he was called out during a Cavs team meeting last month.
  — Alysha Tsuji, For The Win, 16 Feb. 2018
• Mays, who now holds the lowest military rank of E1, should not be able to ask the court to view him as the fall guy, Jones said.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2022
• Maybe Jason Garrett shouldn't have been the fall guy after all.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2020
• And Jim being the husband … and that's being the typical fall guy, the husband must have done it.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Barber was christened into the fall guy’s club decades ago.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2020
• As Beth and Dean deal with the aftermath of Dean’s arrest, the ladies have to find another fall guy to take his place.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
• Meanwhile, is this yet another year of making the batting coach the fall guy?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2019
• He was sacked just two months after his first official game in charge and made the fall guy for the club's poor performances.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 21 Aug. 2020
• In the Times story, the role of fall guy is assumed largely by Hearthside Food Solutions.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• Brown could end up being the fall guy even if there are legit reasons beyond his control.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020
• But sometimes in sports, someone loses their job for a bad performance on the biggest stage and perhaps Brown will be the fall guy.
  — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2019
• Outsiders make convenient fall guys for pandemics; the Black Death led to massacres of Jews across Europe.
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
• When Judas hangs himself in the chamber of tableaux, the fall guy becomes a static and perennial object of hate.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
• Change agents that do survive their change either lead an evolutionary change or have a fall guy.
  — George Bradt, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Jimmy at this point in Saul does not know that Nacho is dead, and may have just hung onto him as an easy fall guy for future cartel shenanigans.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2022
• That felt like football having its fun, turning the hero of the last game into the fall guy, and that sense of a sport toying with its champion was compounded with the second goal.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 27 June 2018
• The fall guy may be coordinator Gus Bradley, whose defense has wasted those leads.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
• The fall guy was Jeff Luhnow, the Astros’ general manager.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• Those desperate to pin the wide-ranging failures of 2023 on single fall guy is understandable, yet entire time zones off the mark.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• Michael Littlejohn is a fall guy who put himself through college guiding catfish and crappie trips at Cedar Creek.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2020
• Not officially, maybe, but canned for using players on the roster given him — by Preller, who can play many roles except fall guy.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
• Officials in Wuhan are the most obvious fall guys for the crisis, and several have already offered to resign.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
• Royce Simmons is another fall guy who discovered the magic of autumn cat fishing many moons ago.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024