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vb. (context British Canada idiomatic English) To take responsibility, especially in a challenging situation.
Usage examples of "carry the can".
They want to go and sort out the Mu gang, but they're shit scared that if Shifu finds out he won't like it, so they want me to carry the can.
Consular officials weren't the only people who were expected to carry the can for their superiors in event an action had negative political repercussions.
She appreciated, too, the fact that Vice Deputy Director Daisy Fennell was here to carry the can.
Won't be the first man to get his head turned by thirteen dollars and a pretty ankle and, o' course, no one thinks about muggins who has to carry the can, I mean, supposing we was all to get it in our heads to run off with young wimmin?
But Whitehall expects me to handle this situation - and if anything goes wrong I carry the can.
There was only one thing to do--get Liz and Fiedler out of it and carry the can.