Whipping-boy: A boy educated alongside a young prince, who is flogged in the prince's stead, when the prince does something that was thought to deserve flogging.
"The choice of agents is a difficult matter, for you have to choose persons for whose faults you are to be punished; to whom you are to be the whipping-boy."
Sir Arthur Helps, Essays, On Choice of Agents (1841).
Scale of 1 to 10: 2.
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