scapegoat in Portuguese
scapegoat in Portuguese
bode expiatório
In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
fazer de bode expiatório
(transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.