collateral damage

“And while the army may have considered them ‘acceptable collateral damage,’ basic moral norms say otherwise.

At the time of the coinciding divorce filings, Slater’s ex-wife, singer Lilly Jay, with whom he shares a 2-year-old son, told Page Six, “My family is collateral damage.”

"Trying to balance the books from the pockets of High Street businesses will simply leave hospitality as collateral damage – threatening jobs, future investment, price increases for consumers, and business viability," she said.

“We initially thought this was collateral damage, that we had been false positive detected as spam,” says Shivaun, 55.

He added: “It's when people seek to construct a narrative and they draw someone else in and that person is collateral damage in an attack on you. It hurts so much.”