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
Getting rid of Notre Dame from football schedule to play a patsy?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2024
After all, she played the role of the getaway driver when he fled the process server last year, so clearly she's got a history of being a willing patsy for her husband's shady behavior.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 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
At times, the prosecution team has suggested that reporters can be patsies in that strategy.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2022
He’s thunked the thinkpiece, and it’s up to the patsies to enact it.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2019
But unless they start from the viewpoint that honourable members are almost certainly dishonourable weasels, they risk being seen as patsies.
From BBC ● May 11, 2015
"But that assumption—a whole continent of patsies —simply didn't make sense."
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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