take the fall

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Incur blame or censure for another's misdeeds, as in She's taken the fall for you in terms of any political damage, or A senior official took the fall for the failed intelligence operation. This expression originated in the 1920s as underworld slang. It began to be extended to less criminal kinds of blame in the second half of the 1900s. Also see take a fall, def. 2.

Words nearby take the fall

take the bitter with the sweet, take the bread out of someone's mouth, take the bull by the horns, take the cake, take the edge off, take the fall, take the field, take the fifth, take the floor, take the heat, take the initiative

Words related to take the fall

incarcerate, penalize, punish, blame, jail, imprison, convict, confine, condemn, adjudge, adjudicate, devote, proscribe, ordain, rule, denounce, settle, damn, judge, railroad