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.
The phrase fall guy here refers, apparently, to a sucker who makes bets at bad odds.
We think that at the end of the day, if there is going to be any "fall guy", it will be the local authority housing tenant.
He will be the fall guy.
He is no one's fall guy.
Is he to be the fall guy for the scoundrel who carries out the illegal dumping?
Why does fishing always have to be the fall guy?
And my strong hunch is that the voluntary movement is the fall guy in this scene.
Let us look at the manufacturing investment, because that is the "fall guy".
