VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Pass the Buck

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.