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The treasured daughter of Gotham City’s top mob don, Sofia was framed by her dad — with Oz’s help — to take the fall for his serial-killing side hobby, then traumatized in Arkham Asylum for a decade.

Didn’t Alito have someone else minding that house — a caretaker, or a cleaner — whom he could convince to take the fall?

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The job is to take the fall, endure the pain, break the bone, then walk away — unsung, battered and bruised.

The Lakers are on the precipice of a second consecutive playoff disaster, and it’s becoming clear who could take the fall.

Not an illegal gambler who arranged for his helpless interpreter to take the fall.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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