a fall guy

(mainly American informal)

someone who is blamed for another person's mistake or crime The book claims Lee Harvey Oswald didn't kill President Kennedy - he was just the fall guy.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Atherfold	['æθəfəuld]
Normand	-	English
Ada	AY-də (English), AH-dah (Polish, Finnish)	English, German, Polish, Hungarian, Italian, Finnish
Simba (2)	-	Eastern African, Swahili
Anouk	-	Dutch, French
Tumelo	-	Southern African, Sotho, Tswana