sacrificial lamb

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Definition of sacrificial lamb in English Turkish dictionary

kurban kuzu

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Definition of sacrificial lamb in English English dictionary

A lamb killed as an offering to the gods

A person who is sacrificed (not literally) for the greater good of some cause

If you refer to someone as a sacrificial lamb, you mean that they have been blamed unfairly for something they did not do, usually in order to protect another more powerful person or group. He was a sacrificial lamb to a system that destroyed him. = scapegoat

Related Terms

sacrificial lambs

plural form of sacrificial lamb

Hyphenation

sac·ri·fi·cial Lamb

Turkish pronunciation

säkrıfîşıl läm

Pronunciation

/ˌsakrəˈfəsʜəl ˈlam/ /ˌsækrəˈfɪʃəl ˈlæm/