Talk:take the fall

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Two primary considerations for this term would have to be "to fall on one's sword" & to assume the role of a scapegoat, as intending to offer one's self as a martyr for a cause that is deemed too important to fail, even (or, especially) when it's failure is justified. Unsigned, added by 68.6.112.233 14:53, 15 June 2006