英语词汇“to take the fall”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to take the fall: to incur or accept blame or punishment in place of another person; to take the blame for something.In earliest use: to accept punishment for a crime in place of the real perpetrator; cf. to take a fall at Phrases 2a.

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1927 C. F. Coe Me—Gangster iv. 77 I kept my mouth shut and took the fall for the whole gang.

1934 Moorhead (Minnesota) Daily News 7 Sept. 1/7 Gil hasn't written a single line of this anti-strike stuff... I assume full responsibility... I want no man to take the fall for me.

1981 Newsweek (Nexis) 9 Mar. 57 CBS was soundly whipped in the ratings by NBC. Some blamed CBS's inexperienced production team, but Walter took the fall.

2004 New Yorker 17 May 71/2 The U.N. is being set up to take the fall for what is bound to be an unstable, tumultuous period before elections.

单词	to take the fall
释义	> as lemmas to take the fall b. to take the fall: to incur or accept blame or punishment in place of another person; to take the blame for something.In earliest use: to accept punishment for a crime in place of the real perpetrator; cf. to take a fall at Phrases 2a. ΚΠ 1927 C. F. Coe Me—Gangster iv. 77 I kept my mouth shut and took the fall for the whole gang. 1934 Moorhead (Minnesota) Daily News 7 Sept. 1/7 Gil hasn't written a single line of this anti-strike stuff... I assume full responsibility... I want no man to take the fall for me. 1981 Newsweek (Nexis) 9 Mar. 57 CBS was soundly whipped in the ratings by NBC. Some blamed CBS's inexperienced production team, but Walter took the fall. 2004 New Yorker 17 May 71/2 The U.N. is being set up to take the fall for what is bound to be an unstable, tumultuous period before elections. extracted from falln.² < as lemmas
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