lightning rod

Noun

 * 1) A metallic conductor that is attached to a high point of a building and leads to the ground to protect the building from damage by lightning.
 * 2)  A person or thing that is a target for negative reactions and distracts criticism from another target.
 * 1)  A person or thing that is a target for negative reactions and distracts criticism from another target.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَانِعَة صَوَاعِق
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: йәшен ҡайтарғыс
 * Bulgarian: гръмоотвод
 * Catalan: parallamps
 * Crimean Tatar: yaşınçeker
 * Czech:, bleskosvod
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: fulmoŝirmilo
 * Estonian: piksevarras
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: gromootvoda
 * Irish: conduchtaire tintrí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: громобран
 * Malay: konduktor kilat
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: lynavleder
 * Nynorsk: lynavleiar
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гро̏мобра̄н, муњобран, громосвод
 * Roman:, munjobran, gromosvod
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kayag-kidlat, pararayos
 * Thai: สายล่อฟ้า
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: блискави́чник, блискавковідві́д, громовідвід
 * Vietnamese: cột thu lôi


 * Bulgarian: гръмоотвод
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 颱風尾
 * Czech:
 * Estonian: piksevarras
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Russian:, козёл отпуще́ния
 * Slovak: hromozvod