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Aunt Sally

Brit. a person or idea seen or set up as an easy target for criticism

Etymology: after the figure of a woman's head at which balls are thrown, as in a sideshow

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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