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- ▪ treat the bearer of bad news as if they were to blame for it
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Metaphoric phrase
"Shooting the messenger" (also "killing the messenger" or "attacking the messenger" or "blaming the bearer of bad tidings / the doom monger") is a metaphoric phrase used to describe the act of blaming the bearer of bad news, despite the bearer or messenger having no direct responsibility for the bad news or its consequences. Until the advent of modern telecommunication, messages were usually deliv... Wikipedia