whipping boy

Etymology
First recorded in 1647.

Noun

 * 1)  A boy that was whipped in the stead of a misbehaving prince.
 * 2)  Someone punished for the errors of others.
 * 1)  Someone punished for the errors of others.

Translations

 * Armenian: մտրակող տղա
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: piske dreng
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: vipanta knabon
 * Estonian: peksupoiss
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew: נער מלקות
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Latin: plāgipatida
 * Polish: chłopiec do bicia
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, козёл отпуще́ния; ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,