Translation of "scapegoat" into Portuguese

bode expiatório, fazer de bode expiatório are the top translations of "scapegoat" into Portuguese.

scapegoat verb noun grammar

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. [..]

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  • bode expiatório

    noun masculine

    a goat imbued with the sins of the people [..]

    Why am I the only one they complain of? They're just making an example out of me and using me as a scapegoat.

    Por que eles só se queixam de mim? Eles só querem fazer de mim um exemplo e me usar como bode expiatório.

  • fazer de bode expiatório

    verb

    to punish someone for the error of someone else [..]

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