pass the buck
to push responsibility onto someone else
TRANSLATION
pass the buck = 'den schwarzen Peter zuschieben' (Verantwortung abschieben) --- GOOGLE INDEX pass the buck: approximately 428,000 hits
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Transport Secretary Alistair Darling told the Commons: "The new structure will bring the operation of track and train closer together. Too often under the present system companies have been able to PASS THE BUCK for poor performance.
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pass the buck
idiom
to shift the responsibility for something to someone else; to evade responsibility
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Pass the buck originally comes 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 may also have been the origin of the use of buck as a slang term for dollar.
Nowadays, pass the buck is often associated with passing on blame, or responsibility which you or others do not want.
It is said that President Truman had a sign on his desk which read:"The buck stops here."Become an expert on the word "buck":
to buck = bocken
to buck up [informal] = sich zusammenreißen
to pass the buck = den schwarzen Peter weitergeben (jmdm. zuschieben)
to make a fast buck = schnelles Geld machen [coll.]
Buck up! [coll.] = Mach schnell!
where the buck stops = wo letztlich die Verantwortung liegt
chamois buck [zool.] = der Gemsbock
fallow buck [zool.] = der Dambock, der Schaufler
roe buck [zool.] = der Rehbock
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"Project managers should have a sign on their desk which says 'the buck stops here'."
idiom
to shift the responsibility for something to someone else; to evade responsibility
Free Dictionary
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Pass the buck originally comes 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 may also have been the origin of the use of buck as a slang term for dollar.
Nowadays, pass the buck is often associated with passing on blame, or responsibility which you or others do not want.
It is said that President Truman had a sign on his desk which read:"The buck stops here."Become an expert on the word "buck":
to buck = bocken
to buck up [informal] = sich zusammenreißen
to pass the buck = den schwarzen Peter weitergeben (jmdm. zuschieben)
to make a fast buck = schnelles Geld machen [coll.]
Buck up! [coll.] = Mach schnell!
where the buck stops = wo letztlich die Verantwortung liegt
chamois buck [zool.] = der Gemsbock
fallow buck [zool.] = der Dambock, der Schaufler
roe buck [zool.] = der Rehbock
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
say something like:
"Project managers should have a sign on their desk which says 'the buck stops here'."
