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the villain of the piece

By Lydia Wood | April 16, 2009

the villain of the piece

The person responsible for a problem or something that goes wrong

  • The whole department got the blame in the end, but the Finance Director was the real villain of the piece.

 

Posted in Word of the Day and tagged Saying of the week

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