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John Francis Dooley Wipe the sleep from your eyes And embrace the light You have slept now For a thousand years Beneath starless nights And now it's time for you To renounce the old ways And see a new dawn rise In former days Masks were raised When the god came down From above the mountain And the sacrifice was made For he knew the day of wrath Was fast approaching Just like yesterday before the war John Francis Dooley The scapegoat has run All our sins are disowned And now it's time for you To take off your mask And cross the Rubicon If you and I were one Within the eyes of our designs It would still not change The fact of our leaving For tonight we must leave With the first gentle breeze For the Isles Of Ken We are assailing Just like Ulysses On an open sea On an odyssey Of self discovery _______________________________ scapegoat /ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/ WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2017: scapegoat nfigurative (person: blamed for others) (figurado)chivo expiatorio loc nom m (figurado)cabeza de turco loc nom f The project failed and now they desperately need a scapegoat. El proyecto fracasó y ahora necesitan desesperadamente un chivo expiatorio. scapegoat n(Bible: goat representing sins) (Biblia)chivo expiatorio loc nom m macho cabrío expiatorio loc nom m chivo emisario loc nom m macho cabrío emisario loc nom m The scapegoat was said to carry people's sins into the wild. Se decía que el chivo expiatorio llevaba los pecados de la gente a lo salvaje. scapegoat [sb]vtrfigurative (blame for others) (figurado)ser el chivo expiatorio loc verb If it's your fault, you should take responsibility and not scapegoat someone else. Si es tu culpa, deberías asumir la responsabilidad y no ser el chivo expiatorio de nadie. scapegoat
cabeza de turco - chivo expiatorio - una víctima propiciatoria _______________________________________________________ disown LISTEN:UK-RP /dɪsˈəʊn/ in Spanish | in French | in Italian | English synonyms | in context | images WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2017 dis•own /dɪsˈoʊn/ v. [~ + object]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2017 dis•own (dis ōn′), v.t.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: disown /dɪsˈəʊn/vb
_______________________________________________________ assail əˈseɪl/ verb gerund or present participle: assailing
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