shoot the messenger

Meaning

1. to blame the person who gives the news that sth bad has happened, instead of the person who is really responsible

   Don't shoot the messenger!

In the movies · 1

• - Don't shoot the messenger, babe. - I'm not going to shoot the messenger.The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus2009

From the same entry

• be shot of
• have shot your bolt
• be like shooting fish in a barrel
• shoot the breeze
• shoot from the hip
• shoot yourself in the foot
• shoot it out
• shoot your mouth off
• shoot the rapids
• shoot down
• shoot for
• shoot off