🗓️ Idiom: Throw Someone Under the Bus (v)
💬 Meaning
- To betray or sacrifice a colleague or team member for personal gain.
- To shift blame onto someone else to protect oneself.
🧠 Example Sentences
- When the project failed, the supervisor threw her assistant under the bus to avoid responsibility.
- He always takes credit when things go well but throws others under the bus when there’s a problem.
- Don’t throw your teammates under the bus just to impress upper management.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
To save his reputation, he decided to __________ his colleague under the bus.
Answer
throw
2. Choose the correct meaning of “throw someone under the bus”:
A) To give someone a big opportunity
B) To rely on a team member
C) To betray or blame someone for your own benefit
Answer
C) To betray or blame someone for your own benefit
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“She blamed her teammate so she wouldn’t get in trouble.” → Change the sentence using: throw someone under the bus
Answer
She threw her teammate under the bus so she wouldn’t get in trouble.
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