Aunt Sally

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  1. A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a wooden figurine resembling an old woman.
    — There were some swings, and a hooting-tooting blaring merry-go-round, and a shooting-gallery and Aunt Sallies.
  2. A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted. UK,figuratively
    — But the novel is something more than a national institution; it has become the recognized channel of communication between the crank and his victims; it is the shooting gallery through which we fire our messages at that dear old Aunt Sally, the British Public.
  3. A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted.; an object set up to invite such criticism UK,figuratively

词源

Apparently after My Old Aunt Sally, the title of a blackface minstrel song written by Dan Emmett in 1843.
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