🐐 Goat
"Scapegoat"
Meaning
Someone blamed for problems they did not cause.
About the goat
Goats are stubborn climbers with a long history as scapegoats, which is where idioms about blame and stubbornness come from.
Example sentence
When the vase broke, the little boy became the scapegoat, even though the cat did it.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
Someone blamed for problems they did not cause.