scapegoat
Não podemos admitir que ele seja usado como bode expiatório!
We cannot allow him to be used as a scapegoat!
The expression comes straight from the Hebrew Bible. In Leviticus 16, on Yom Kippur the high priest would symbolically transfer the community's sins onto a goat and drive it into the wilderness. English 'scapegoat' was coined by William Tyndale in his 1530 Pentateuch translation, and Portuguese 'bode expiatório' follows the same idea.
Sources: Britannica — Scapegoat, Etymonline — scapegoat.
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