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标 题: 美国俚语故事(1)
发信站: 听涛站 (Fri Apr 13 13:24:57 2001), 转信
Fall Guy
A fall guy is the person who someone decides will be the loser or victim.
The first fall guys were men who wrestled for money.At the end of the last
centry, wrestling was a very popular sport in the United states. Wrestling
matches were held not only in big cities,but at country fairs and
travelling shows. As the sport became more popular it became less and less
of a sport.many of the contests were fixed. The wrestlers knew before the
match which one of them would be the winner. The goal in wrestling is to
hold your opponent's shoulders down against the floor. This is called "a
fall". Sometimes one of the wrestlers would be paid before the match to
take "the fall". He agreed to be loser----the fall guy.
Today a fall guy is anyone who is talked or trapped into taking a blame
for someone else's crime or wrong doing. There are fall guys in many situat
ions, people who publicly take the blame when something goes wrong. A fall
guy takes the rap for something wrong or illegal.He accepts responsibility
and punishment for what someone else did, although the fall guy also may
have been involved.
The word rap has meant"blame" for several hundred years, the expression
to take the rap first was used about one hundred years ago. Another similar
expression is bumrap. A person receives the bumrap if he is found guilty
of a crime, but is really innocent. Sometimes a fall guy may not know he
is the fall guy until he gets the bumrap. In the case, he may be framed.
This means false evidence was created to make an innocent person seem guilty.
Some word experts say the expression to frame someone comes rom the way
wood must be fitted closed the painting or photograph to frame it. In the
same way evidence must be designed perfectly if it is to frame an innocent
persom to make him seem guilty.
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