Sentence examples for case of shooting from inspiring English sources

That was a case of shooting the messenger.

It really is a case of shooting the messenger.

Is it a case of shooting the messenger and playing politics?

(It would be the most obvious case of "shooting the messenger").

Attacks on short-sellers for causing this crisis were seriously wide of the mark: a case of shooting the messenger.

But the global box office proved not to be a case of shooting clunge in a barrel for The Inbetweeners Movie, despite its mighty British take in 2011: it scraped an indifferent $17m outside of the country.

Throw in the headline, though, and what we see is a case of "shoot the messenger".

Today, close to 40percentt of all the images in the Lego catalog contain some sort of violence, the study found, with the fastest growth occurring in cases of shooting.

Classic case of shoot the messenger.

The bill has elicited strong reactions from opposition figures, who view it as a case of Russia shooting itself in the foot.

"I just tried to get a hand on it, and I think it was more a case of him shooting the ball into my hand than of me blocking it".