We are not here to interfere, nor are we here to be anyone's whipping boy.
But we need a whipping boy, and economists have always, kind of, been whipping boys.
In China, the energetic French leader has a strikingly different standing: he is Beijing's favorite international whipping boy.
Peter Crouch, Emile Heskey, to take two favourite whipping boys, are more talented than they’re given credit for and certainly far from the stereotypical big lumbering centre forwards of old.
Tom says his mother USES him as the whipping boy at home. She's an alcoholic and whenever his dad gets mad at her for getting drunk, she turns all her anger at him onto her son.