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別人牽驢你拔橛子 别人牵驴你拔橛子 [bie2 ren5 qian1 lü2 ni3 ba2 jue2 zi5] /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/ 2019 1
別人 别人 [[bie2ren5]] /other people; others; other person/ 841 2
吃別人嚼過的饃不香 吃别人嚼过的馍不香 [chi1 bie2 ren2 jiao2 guo4 de5 mo2 bu4 xiang1] /lit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom)/fig. there's no joy in discovering something if someone else got there first/ 1978 1
人家牽驢你拔橛 人家牵驴你拔橛 [ren2 jia1 qian1 lü2 ni3 ba2 jue2] /see 別人牽驢你拔橛子|别人牵驴你拔橛子[bie2 ren5 qian1 lu:2 ni3 ba2 jue2 zi5]/ 2019 1

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