throw somebody to the dogs

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

throw sb to the dogs idiom
to allow someone to be criticized or attacked, often in order to protect yourself from being criticized or attacked
• I really felt as if I'd been thrown to the dogs just to save other people's reputations.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Disapproving and criticizing ↑Damaging reputation
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