pass the buck in English

transfer blame to someone else

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1. If in doubt, pass the buck.

2. Unlike the criminals who pass the buck.

3. I was tempted to pass the buck .

4. They are all too willing to pass the buck

5. Andonce you start a business, there's nowhere to pass the buck.

6. Pass the Buck, to shift responsibility or blame to another person.

7. David says the responsibility is Mr Smith's and it's no good trying to pass the buck.

8. You'll end up buck naked if you lose too often in strip poker, a game that give us another "Buckism" -- "pass the buck." Card players on the frontier shifted a buckhorn knife from player to player