take the fall
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Students are the foot soldiers who take the fall when administrators need a show of resolve, but the academic departments train and deploy them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
And someone close to him will take the fall.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025
Matthew Mott was dispensable enough to take the fall for the previous failures but Brendon McCullum, given the keys to all England sides to mould as he pleases until 2027, is not.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025
Didn’t Alito have someone else minding that house — a caretaker, or a cleaner — whom he could convince to take the fall?
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2024
She’d never meant to get caught in the blast and had believed her father’s aide had set up another student to take the fall.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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