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The idiom to “throw someone under the bus”
means to place blame on them for something,
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and often when they're not there. For example,
let's say we're in a sales meeting and I say,
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“The sales are down because of the bad design
of the new sales page.”
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After the meeting someone might say, “Dang, Rachel, why did you throw the designer under the bus like that?”
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