Examples:

• I truly hope that he and the EU are not left to carry the can, that is, get blamed for unemployment which is due to poorly functioning national labour markets.
• And someone, somewhere, is trying to make us carry the can.
• You carry the can, in here.
• Why have we got to carry the can?
• It looks like she might carry the can because Mr Hatter's done a bunk.
• If we did not have the single market, the British Government would be left to carry the can for this whole debacle.
• I'll carry the can, OK?
• Now Parliament is in the position of having to carry the can for the actions of the arrogant Swedish Presidency.
• To declare ‘mission accomplished’ in order to save money will prove costly, and it is the people who will carry the can.
• There is nothing clever, though, about politicians who keep trying to shift blame towards Brussels and get it to carry the can.