pass the buck to someone else

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• pass the buck — {v. phr.}, {informal} To make another person decide something or accept a responsibility or give orders instead of doing it yourself; shift or escape responsibility or blame; put the duty or blame on someone else. * /Mrs. Brown complained to the… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• pass the buck — {v. phr.}, {informal} To make another person decide something or accept a responsibility or give orders instead of doing it yourself; shift or escape responsibility or blame; put the duty or blame on someone else. * /Mrs. Brown complained to the… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• pass the buck — If you pass the buck, you avoid taking responsibility by saying that someone else is responsible …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• pass the buck — ► pass the buck informal shift responsibility to someone else. Main Entry: ↑buck …   English terms dictionary

• pass the buck — phrasal : to shift a responsibility to someone else inclined to pass the buck to some other futile body Sir Winston Churchill * * * pass the buck (slang) To shift the responsibility to someone else (from the practice of passing the marker to the… …   Useful english dictionary

• pass\ the\ buck — v. phr. informal To make another person decide something or accept a responsibility or give orders instead of doing it yourself; shift or escape responsibility or blame; put the duty or blame on someone else. Mrs. Brown complained to the man who… …   Словарь американских идиом

• pass the buck —    If you pass the buck, you avoid taking responsibility by saying that someone else is responsible.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    If you say that someone is passing the buck, you are accusing them of not taking responsibility for a… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• pass the buck — tv. to shift the responsibility for something to someone else; to evade responsibility. (See also buck passer.) □ When things get a little tough, do what I do. Pass the buck. □ Don’t pass the buck. Stand up and admit you were wrong …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• pass the buck — to make someone else deal with something that you should take responsibility for He accused ministers of trying to pass the buck on education …   English dictionary

• Pass the buck —   If you pass the buck, you avoid taking responsibility by saying that someone else is responsible …   Dictionary of English idioms

• pass the buck — Meaning Pass responsibility onto someone else. Origin From the card game poker. A buck was a marker that indicated whose turn it was to deal. Passing the buck moved the deal onto the next player. Silver dollars were later used as markers and this …   Meaning and origin of phrases