别人牵驴你拔橛子

1. • lit. someone else stole the donkey you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom)
2. • fig. you're the least culpable, but you're the one who gets the blame

Character by character

• 别(bié)surname Bie
• 人(ren)person
• 牵(qiān)lead along
• 驴(lǘ)donkey
• 你(nǐ)you
• 拔(bá)pull up
• 橛(jué)a peg
• 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair"