Meaning:
Transfer a problem to someone else
Examples:
- This institutional reform is vitally important, because we need a political council which will take decisions, which will assume responsibility for financial decisions and which will not pass the buck to the administrative staff when things go wrong.
- When there's an accident, they all pass the buck.
- You can't pass the buck that easily.
- I show up on time and then I pass the buck to you.
- And now he wants to pass the buck.
- Pass the buck, please.
- Try to justify what you did wrong or attempt to pass the buck.
- We pass the buck endlessly.
- Mr President, we are talking about the situation in Belarus, but let us not pass the buck.
- We cannot simply pass the buck to Slovakia, Romania or the other countries.