take the fall

Didn’t Alito have someone else minding that house — a caretaker, or a cleaner — whom he could convince to take the fall?

The job is to take the fall, endure the pain, break the bone, then walk away — unsung, battered and bruised.

The Lakers are on the precipice of a second consecutive playoff disaster, and it’s becoming clear who could take the fall.

Not an illegal gambler who arranged for his helpless interpreter to take the fall.

But that is because he is a master at finding someone else to take the fall for him, from the January 6 defendants to his former lawyer Michael Cohen to Fox News and Rudy Giuliani.