take the rap
Example Sentences
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No politician would want to get blamed for that and in a parliament of minorities it is not necessarily the governing party that would take the rap.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2025
One of the suspects reconsiders the possibility that his confederate will cash in on the promise of a deal, leaving him alone to take the rap.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2020
Slip and the gang take the rap for a robbery they did not commit.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2020
But an attorney for Swearingen denies such a plot exists with a second death-row inmate, Anthony Shore, and Shore has not tried to take the rap for Swearingen’s convictions.
From Reuters • Oct. 22, 2017
“Oh, give me a break, Fisher! Do you want to take the rap for something that you didn’t do?”
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
