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kill the messenger
verb
To blame a problem on whoever reported it; to hold somebody accountable a problem because he/she brought attention to it.
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CHRIS ROCK: KILL THE MESSENGER Stand-up's current top dog does his latest concert-style special.
And, so, kill the messenger".
Kill the Messenger opens at Belvoir, Sydney on 14 February.
Jeremy Renner is the main reason to see "Kill the Messenger".
"They're trying to kill the messenger," she said in an interview.
When we speak, Lui is in rehearsals for her latest Belvoir commission, Kill the Messenger.
They want to kill the messenger, but it ends being sort of true.
In a classic sense, they were trying to kill the messenger.
Now we have an intense Jeremy Renner, in "Kill the Messenger".
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But did his enemies kill the messengers, or, were there hostile leakers such as Julian Assange, or perhaps message hackers like the Russians?
Earlier this year, King tweeted out that "the clowns are pissed at me," saying that kids have always been scared of clowns and not to "kill the messengers for the message".
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