throw (someone) to the dogs

to allow someone to be criticized or attacked, often in order to protect yourself from being criticized or attacked.

I really felt as if I'd been thrown to the dogs just to save other people's reputations.

• spur someone on
• spur something on
• squared away
• square meal
• square off
• square peg
• square peg in a round hole
• square shoulders
• square the circle
• square with
• square with something
• square your shoulders
• squeaky clean
• squeal like a stuck pig
• squeeze out
• squeeze out of
• squeeze out of someone
• squeeze out of something
• squeeze someone out
• squeeze someone out of
• squeeze someone out of something
• squeeze something out
• squeeze something out of
• squeeze something out of someone
• squeeze something out of something