leave someone holding the baby
leave someone holding the bag
hang out to dry
pin on
fall on one's sword
wash one's hands
leave someone in the lurch
duckshove
answer for
bench
exculpator
play the victim card
drum out
overfunction
disculpate
cleaver
hold the fort
take the rap
deprive
bite in the arse
lay at someone's door
pass the buck
exonerate
scapegoat
take the helm
trustworthy
Pilatism
hand someone his hat
relieve
bereave
account for
victim-blame
cut someone loose
at someone's door
desolate
carry the can
throw oneself on someone's mercy
hold to account
scapegoatism
charge
whip the cat
take away
incur
defenestrate
step up
bury
freeze out
victimism
wash one's hands of
let someone go
detract
pay no mind
take the heat
bug out
shoot the messenger
decommemorate
point the bone
exculpate
send to Coventry
deresponsibilize
go to the wall
shit or get off the pot
hit list
accuser
office
kick off
make away with
put out of one's misery
recuse
climb down
victim-blamey
ownership
subject
and your little dog too
wite
atone
scapegoater
victimiser
quit
send someone to the showers
backslide
guilt
inculpative
victimizer
inculpatory
subduce
blameful
bin
ditch
injured party
sweep out
dissolve
answerable
retire
get it out of my system
accuse
fault
disappear