"However, here is a new phrase that I REALLY like" Topic

To "throw someone under the bus".
I don't know how new it is, but I have only heard it within the past few months.
It is so descriptive. It both acknowledges the uselessness of the throwee, and the lack of loyalty and integrity of the thrower.
It is similar to throwing someone to the wolves (Flashman and Valla), but updated.
If Flashman were alive today, he would be throwing someone under the bus.

I use this phrase more than I care to admit. That and, "cover your ass". You can see what I worry about much of the day.

You can see what I worry about much of the day.

Getting rear-ended by a bus?

I think it's a little different than "throwing someone to the wolves." I always thought that throwing someone to the wolves was more like the Toys-R-Us manager sending the new guy out to tell the 100 plus raging customers that they had run out of Cabbage Patch Kids.

I kind of see throwing someone under the bus more as placing public blame for a failure on someone who may or may not have had anything to do with it.

It is a good line.

I think it's a little different than "throwing someone to the wolves." I always thought that throwing someone to the wolves was more like the Toys-R-Us manager sending the new guy out to tell the 100 plus raging customers that they had run out of Cabbage Patch Kids.

I kind of see throwing someone under the bus more as placing public blame for a failure on someone who may or may not have had anything to do with it--to make the scapegoat.

It is a good line.

Just heard it recently hunh?

Where I work it's an art form that is encouraged by the CTO. It's practiced by 90% of the staff along with managing by public ridicule, plausible deniability, advancement by assassination and recently flat out lying to save face.

Gosh I love my job, sure wish the economy would turn around.

Wow DRD sounds like a great place to work…can I forward my resume???

John, I'm not sure, but I think the phrase came into
fairly wide-spread use after your beloved Iggles
q'back was disparaged in the media by an ex-receiver,
now playing for the D. Cowboys.

The receiver was often said to have 'thrown McNabb
under the bus'.

A Project manager I was working for once came up with the classic:

"It's my ass on the line so I want no more cock-ups!"

At one time, the phrase I would hear repeated again and again was "At the end of the day."

can I forward my resume???

I can't recommend it however, send it Stosstruppen, it'd be nice to have a fellow miniatures enthusiast here. Do you mind relocating to Washington DC? I suspect not!

"Throw mama from the train" instantly comes to mind. Not related, though.

The outside world is insane. Everything outside my house is part of the outside world.

It's about as funny as a truckload of dead babies….

I have been using "Throw Under the Bus" for quite a number of years now (at least three or four).

An example of how I use it.

I am listening to a conversation where one individual disparages another who is not present. When the disparaged person arrives, I (or others) might comment, "Hey, you know John here just threw you under the bus when he mentioned about [insert item] to the boss."

Basically I use it to tell a person to watch out for someone else who has been talking down about her/him, making her/him look bad, or what have you (whether it is deserved or not). Essentially I am "throwing" the other person who made the original disparaging remarks under a different bus when I do this!

Now, thowing someone to the wolves is very much like what Toshach described above.

Andy Welkley
"Your Phrendlee Hevy Phyzx T-chrr"
Who avoids trying to throw anyone under anything…my back would hurt too much!

I would love to throw some people under the bus . . .

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