Layla saw Fadil as a patsy with a wallet.
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Patsy
//ˈpætsi//
Synonyms for "patsy" (54 found)
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24 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- балама noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Dutch
1 entries- zondebok noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Finnish
2 entries- syntipukki noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- uhri noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
French
2 entries- lampiste noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- pigeon noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
German
2 entries- Prügelknabe noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- Sündenbock noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Hebrew
1 entries- פראייר noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Hungarian
2 entries- balek noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- palimadár noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Icelandic
1 entries- blóraböggull noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Italian
4 entries- capro espiatorio noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- cornuto m pollo noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- fesso noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- zimbello noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- syndebukk noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Russian
1 entries- простофиля noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- ovca noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- žrtva noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- žrtveni jarac noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Spanish
3 entries- cabeza de turco noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- pardillo noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
- primo noun (a person who is taken advantage of)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Layla saw Sami as a patsy with a wallet.
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He was a patsy set up to take the fall.
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I'm just a patsy!
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