别人牵驴你拔橛子

Traditional form:

別人牽驢你拔橛子

Pinyin (reading):

biérenqiānlünǐbájuézi

Definitions:

• 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

Characters:

• 别 - to separate, to distinguish, to classify; to leave; other; do not, must not
• 人 - man, person; people
• 牵 - to drag, to pull, to lead by the hand
• 驴 - donkey, ass
• 你 - you, second person pronoun
• 拔 - to uproot, to pull out; to select, to promote
• 橛 - stake, post; axle
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing

Traditional characters:

• 別 - to separate, to distinguish, to classify; to leave; other; do not, must not
• 人 - man, person; people
• 牽 - to drag, to pull, to lead by the hand
• 驢 - donkey, ass
• 你 - you, second person pronoun
• 拔 - to uproot, to pull out; to select, to promote
• 橛 - stake, post; axle
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing