Citations:whipping girl


 * 2015, Stephanie Collins, Sarcasm Is a Dragon’S Best Friend: . . . . Until You Lose Your Scales, Trafford Publishing (ISBN 9781490753317), page 374:
 * “ obnoxious sons for free to try straighten them out. I even had one mother offering me her daughter as the whipping girl.” “Really? Huh.” “If Sandra needed a whipping girl, then I would&#39;ve accepted, but since she doesn&#39;t....” He shook his head.
 * 1998, Working Woman
 * Low on knowledge but high on swagger, TCs liked having me around as a whipping girl. A conversation might go like this : “I don&#39;t know what&#39;s the matter with my (expletive) piece of (expletive), but it better get fixed right now."
 * 2015, John P. Marquand, Women and Thomas Harrow: A Novel, Open Road Media (ISBN 9781504015745):
 * “Maybe you&#39;ve been a whipping girl for years and just don&#39;t know it.” “Oh, I&#39;d know it,” she said. “I wouldn&#39;t be too sure,” he said. “The bright way of looking at things nowadays is that we—none of us—know what we&#39;re doing really, because all of