Sentences with phrase «fall guy for»

just sets up engineering to be the fall guy for their folly.

Jack was very important because here was a guy who had had a retrospective at the Whitney and had been the fall guy for Abstract Expressionism in some respects.

In a roundtable in these pages one year ago, Peter Doig became the fall guy for several participants» vexations with the big bad art market.

I wonder if she's more than she appears and playing me for a patsy and I'm just the fall guy for a big cover - up?

Patois - spouting Jar Jar Binks remains the fall guy for the flawed Star Wars prequels that began with «The Phantom Menace».

Madea's Witness Protection Investment banker George (Eugene Levy) discovers the hard way that he's the fall guy for the company's mob - backed Ponzi scheme.

All are seen as connected, and Congress would be a convenient fall guy for impasse in Albany.

Denham is in danger of being made the fall guy for Labour's performance (he was in charge of the campaign as a neighbouring MP).

As a foreign office minister Waldegrave, although innocent of any wrong doing apart from minor negligence, was the political fall guy for Sir Richard Scott and the opposition and media.

He's not going to be the fall guy for this, and admitting too much exaggeration allows him to become precisely that.

I think McAdoo and Manning know it, even if Beckham became the fall guy for that inept offensive showing.

I mean, obviously the manager is usually the fall guy for a bad start, even if he's had very little to work with.

In effect, the couple charges they were fall guys for Glaxo and suffered while in jail, where Humphrey developed prostate cancer that worsened due to lack of treatment.

Texas A&M's flurry of success was more fun for Texas» football hordes than SMU's, primarily because the Aggies are always the fall guys for the conference jokes.

In a way, CRU are just the fall guys for a far more widespread, insidious, endemic corruption of Science.

Not exact matches

Former Telus top man Joe Natale officially took over as CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. this year, signaling a return to stable leadership for the company after former CEO Guy Laurence was axed last fall.

secondly he was abusive and the other guy made me feel desired and wanted and since he was making me feel like crap I fell for the other guy.

Too many of the also - rans are already stuck in the proof - point pudding (moving sideways instead of forward) and finding that they can no longer sell the same old «just wait and see» story as easily to the guys that totally fell for it the last time.

WASHINGTON — Fervently proclaiming that he was actually the one responsible for the scandal involving the adult film actress, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue reportedly stated Thursday, in a desperate attempt to serve as President Trump's fall guy, that he was the one who slept with Stormy Daniels.

In the summer of 2015, Cohen told a Daily Beast reporter to «tread very fucking lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting,» and last fall he told Vanity Fair he's «the guy who would take a bullet for the president.»

He was lured back toward its end, he said, becoming the «fall guy» for its true operators.

For top men in the White House, the new - guy description fell off long ago or never even existed.

A former political aide says he was duped into being the fall guy when Missouri Gov. Eric Grietens» campaign was looking for some way to explain how it got a charity donor list.

But I do know that forking over my cash to some random advisor, following the cows, falling for some marketing package, blindly following some guys expert tips and not knowing how my money is or isn't working for me - it just doesn't sit right.

True — religion is nothing more than some guy telling you what to do — if people worship that, they are stupid enough to have fallen for anything.

Also, if you don't want to «fall for a scam» that's ok, Christ didn't go begging people to beleive in Him (guy who wanted to bury his dad, rich man, etc.), but I think (getting back to the article) that it's important if we are in the position of Chaplaincy then we should share the good news of Christ focusing on His love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Funny how his faith gets a bit stronger around election time... sorry guys, we wont fall for this a second time around.

It's just a poor «fall guy» for the real reasons behind any aberrant behaviors.

The series comes to a dramatic end with a fictional letter, written as though from St Petersburg, in which Chesterton's alter ego, «Guy Crawford», describes himself as joining a rebellious mob in which he recognises an obviously Jewish student called Emmanuel, and as springing to his defence, sword in hand, as the Czarist troops attack: but Emmanuel sustains a fatal blow and dies in the street, «a champion of justice, like thousands who have fallen for it in the dark records of this dark land».

Here's the «CliffsNotes» summary: The «Watchers» helped mankind with technology; humans abused it for evil; God cursed the angels for this and turned them into rock giants; these fallen angels help Noah build and defend the ark; when they die in the battle against the bad guys, the mysterious beings go up to heaven.

I struggled with being attracted to guys and caring for them too much (I didn't want to call it falling in love, but I only felt that once with a friend, I would do anything to make him happy everyday.)

its a shame to see such a cool guy fall for something as silly as Theism and blood sacrifice religion... he needs to replace the point guard in his brain

Describing a moment of healing, Mike Pilavachi said: «In Scotland there was also a guy who hadn't been able to read for a year after falling out of a tree and damaging his skull and eye.

the christian bands that i keep coming back to are switchfoot (you should check out jon foreman's [lead singer] solo stuff, especially his album titled «fall,» read the lyrics for sure, the guy can write!)

And the Doctor runs through what kind of man he could be in a jocular way — a fighter, a lover (winks at Rose), etc. and then ends the scene by launching that guy off the ship into the air for a murderous fall to earth: «No second chances — I'm that kind of man.»

At this point the Christian is the sucker, the fall guy, the jester, the fool for Christ, the one who stands before Pilate and is silent, the one who stands before power and power - structures and laughs.

However, I don't doubt for a minute that allowing the bigots» discomfort to be the convenient «fall - guy» isn't an effective delaying tactic.

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

its sad to know fellow humans need to fall for the crap this guy spits out..

Please do you homework instead of falling for namecalling which is what this Imam wants you to do to make him a victim and me the bad guy.

I recently discovered your blog and have fallen fast for you guys!

I've never yet had the chance to spend midsummer in Sweden — perhaps that's for the best — I don't think I'm the kind of guy who'd like to dance the «Små grodorna», although my wife's birthday falls in August so we can always combine our crayfish party with her birthday celebration.

Hi, I've been reading you guys» blog for a while and I fell in love with it.

Guys, you are going to fall head over heels for these adorable Skinny Heart - Shaped Sugar Cookies.

See, while the filling for these guys is quite veggie - burgeresque (i.e. not grill friendly), it's very well contained by the nice sturdy portobello cap that will not fall apart.

Fall is coming, and that means it's time for delicious soups, so I thought I would share this Chicken Tortilla Soup with you guys today.

Dehydrator: This guy has been kind of neglected in my kitchen the past few years (I mainly use it to make sprouted buckwheat crisps and to dry grapes into plump raisins in the fall), but since this blog has such a big archive of delicious raw dishes that call for time in the dehydrator, I'm including it in this list.

After a few moments of flipping through the pages, I know that even my boyfriend, who is a meat and potatoes kind of guy, is going to fall for your recipes.

We think Top Crop is going to be a perfect beer for the fall season, and we look forward to working with the guys from M Hospitality again in the future,» added David Morenus, Brewer / General Manager at Engine 15 Brewing Co..

Suddenly, a guy from her past shows up and she falls head over hills for him.