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idiombe a lightning rod for sthto be the person who gets all the blame or criticism in a bad situation, although you are not the only one responsible for it, or are not responsible for it at all :During the Gulf War oil companies like Chevron became lightning rods for the frustration of anti-war protesters even though they do not, as they said, "own or produce oil in the Persian Gulf".I tried to act like a lightning rod for the paper, signing the more dangerous editorials myself.
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