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单词 pass the buck
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pass the buck

informal Shift the responsibility for something to someone else: elected political leaders cannot pass the buck for crisis decisions to any alternative source of authority...
  • It seems to me that it is far easier to pass the buck than to take personal responsibility for our own actions.
  • The government can pass the buck to companies, and workers can abdicate all responsibility.
  • Instead they have been engaged in the old game of passing the buck, and shifting all blame onto the civil service.
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