shoot the messenger

釋義

1. 拿報信人出氣（而非責備問題的責任人）

   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!別錯怪好人！

電影裡這樣說 · 1 部

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

同一詞條的短語

• 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