patsy
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As Warren Buffett wrote, “If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Getting rid of Notre Dame from football schedule to play a patsy?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2024
Again, the easiest marks are the ones who don't realize they're being set up as a patsy.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
Many journalists have anointed him both—a destroyer of worlds but also a deal-maker, a patsy but also a conquering hero.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2023
Regibald du Burgh announced, “I accept the challenge of the once-archivist Werfel, traitor to his own people, elf-friend, patsy for the enemy.”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
As Rhodes found out, however, it's not so easy to pawn your misdeeds off on patsies.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2022
At times, the prosecution team has suggested that reporters can be patsies in that strategy.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2022
England entertain Ireland in round four before heading for Paris on the final weekend, possibly as the patsies for a crowd expecting the first Grand Slam since 2010.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2022
The Pac-12 Conference should be accorded high praise for having its universities play major teams rather than marginal patsies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2015
"But that assumption—a whole continent of patsies —simply didn't make sense."
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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