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Definition of “throw someone under the bus”
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- (mainly US) to expose someone to an unpleasant fate, esp in order to save oneself
See bus (sense 9)
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Report as inappropriate'throw someone under the bus' definition based on an original suggestion by Daved made on 2012-07-18.
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