take the fall

Matthew Mott was dispensable enough to take the fall for the previous failures but Brendon McCullum, given the keys to all England sides to mould as he pleases until 2027, is not.

Was it a classic case of someone having to take the fall in the aftermath of an epic disaster?

Several sergeants later sued the city, saying they were being made to take the fall for the department’s misdeeds.

Doll’s action unleashes a cascade of karmic consequences, most of them violent and some perpetrated by him, that culminate in the investigator being set up to take the fall for the killing of a young female tourist and being pursued by bounty hunters sent by that cartel bagman.

The treasured daughter of Gotham City’s top mob don, Sofia was framed by her dad — with Oz’s help — to take the fall for his serial-killing side hobby, then traumatized in Arkham Asylum for a decade.