0 a person who is falsely blamed for something that has gone wrong, or for a crime that they have not committed:
1 a person who is blamed for something bad when others who were also responsible are not blamed:
2 someone who other people blame for something bad that happens, even though he or she was not the only person responsible for it:
Inevitably, one of the junior executives was picked to be the fall guy.
Everybody who has held this position has been a fall guy; some have fallen more heavily than others.
I should, however, tell him that one can be a friend of businesses without being its fall guy.
He was no longer just the fall guy.
The patient is just the fall guy who is in the hands of doctors who think that they know better than the patient.
On the contrary, in the past it has always been the fall guy at the bottom who has carried the can.
Obviously he is the fall guy; he has been sent here to say nothing in this debate.
And a fall guy is what he was—pursuing through the courts the nonsensical notion of absolute confidentiality.
Let us look at the manufacturing investment, because that is the "fall guy".
