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別人牽驢你拔橛子
简 别人牵驴你拔橛子 · 繁 別人牽驢你拔橛子Mandarin · pinyin bié ren qiān lǘ nǐ bá jué zi
Meanings
- lit. someone else stole the donkey; you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom)
- fig. you're the least culpable, but you're the one who gets the blame
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- 別
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- 人
- rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
- 牽
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- 驢
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- 你
- nǐ · you, second person pronoun
- 拔
- bá · uproot, pull out
- 橛
- jué · a post, a stake; an axle
- 子
- zǐ · offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch
- 别
- bié · separate, other; do not
- 牵
- qiān · drag, pull, lead by hand
- 驴
- lǘ · donkey, ass
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Mandarin tones
2–5–1–2–3–2–2–5 · bie2 ren5 qian1 lu:2 ni3 ba2 jue2 zi5
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