0 someone or something that is given to people in authority and is expected to be harmed or destroyed, especially in order to prevent other people or things from being harmed or destroyed:
We knew the department would be a sacrificial lamb when the time came to cut costs.
No one should be encouraged to hope that there is a sacrificial lamb available for that purpose.
He is the sacrificial lamb, although he will be a pretty tough lamb to digest.
I hope that they will not be the sacrificial lamb of the conciliation procedure.
No longer must they be regarded as the sacrificial lamb.
The last major area to be cast in the role of sacrificial lamb is the video industry.
She has not been the sacrificial lamb that the council intended.
Unless the flesh of that passover sacrificial lamb was consumed, the members of the household would not be saved from death.
Itkin, who had little name recognition statewide, was considered to be a sacrificial lamb.
