kill the messenger

verb

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of shoot the messenger.

    • To disbelieve the message and seek to kill the messenger will not destroy the message.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kill the messenger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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