duck-shove
verb [with object] Australian /NZ informal
Avoid or evade (a responsibility or issue): (as noun duck-shoving) this sniping and duck-shoving between county councils and the Electricity Commission should cease...
- They and were happy to duck-shove responsibility for the fiasco that is the Queensland electricity supply system to executives and managers.
- It is buck-passing and duck-shoving, and at the end of the day there is a whole list of victims.
- You cannot duck shove this off to the UN and everyone else you can think of.
Derivatives
duck shover
- colour commentary
- colour commentator
- colour-conscious
- colour consciousness
- colour constancy
- colour contrast
- colour-coordinate
- colour-coordinated
- colour-coordinating
- colour coordination
- colour-correct
- colour-corrected
- colour correction
- colour cup
- colour-defective
- colour-de-roy
- colour diagram
- colour difference
- colour disc
- colour discrimination
- colour doctor
- colour duster
- colour dusting
- coloured
- coloured audition