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vb. (present participle of pass the buck English)
Usage examples of "passing the buck".
There are a lot of redundancies built into the Federal system so that if something goes wrong, there are no fewer than five hundred people passing the buck around.
The prosecutor was ambivalent, but Harve was so delighted at passing the buck that he offered to send a deputy back to Raz's shack for the rifle.
Maybe Jordan was just trying to allow him the maximum amount of latitude, as he had said, but on the other hand, what he'd just done was a perfect example of passing the buck.
Everybody kept making excuses and passing the buck, with the result that nothing was decided at all.
But, being only a probationer, he forewent the satisfaction of direct and immediate disciplining of the recalcitrant churl in favor of the safer course of passing the buck higher up.