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whipping boy surrogate sufferer for delinquent prince. [Eur. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 942] See : Substitution |
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Paper is a perennial whipping boy of the environmental movement: we cut down trees to make it, we dye it with toxic bleaches, we waste too much and we recycle too little. Maybe the artist got tired of being the whipping boy for all that went wrong with painting in the '80s, and saw the digital processes he began employing in 2002 as a way out. In the beef industry, packers have been everyone's favorite whipping boy. |
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