patsy
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As Warren Buffett wrote, “If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Three days later, he recanted that confession and spent the rest of his life professing his innocence, claiming that he was made a patsy for the real assassin, a man he called “Raoul.”
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2025
And I don’t see the party as playing the patsy, either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025
Again, the easiest marks are the ones who don't realize they're being set up as a patsy.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
Had Henry intended to make me the patsy if his plan had fallen through?
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
As Rhodes found out, however, it's not so easy to pawn your misdeeds off on patsies.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2022
He’s thunked the thinkpiece, and it’s up to the patsies to enact it.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2019
You could be one of those insecure patsies they prey on with those ads.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017
“Everyone knows” that the Cubs’ record is legitimate because they have supposedly played a normal schedule while the Nats, we’ve told ourselves, have played patsies.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2016
"But that assumption—a whole continent of patsies —simply didn't make sense."
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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