Pass-the-buckとは意味・読み方・使い方

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/03/21 00:44 UTC 版)

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May have originated with the game of poker, in which a marker or counter, frequently in frontier days a knife with a buckhorn handle, was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the "buckhorn" or "buck", as the marker came to be called, to the next player.

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pass the buck (third-person singular simple present passes the buck, present participle passing the buck, simple past and past participle passed the buck)

(idiomatic, informal) To transfer responsibility or blame from oneself onto another; to absolve oneself of concern for a given matter by claiming to lack authority or jurisdiction.

Coordinate term: weasel out
- 1990 February 4, David Morris, “Attorney General Sides With Texas Gay Groups”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 3:
  
  McLean was quoted in the Austin American Statesman as saying that although he had expected the guidelines to be ruled illegal, an attorney general 's opinion […] was required in order to clarify the law. But critics say Bernstein and McLean simply passed the buck to the attorney general in order to placate the small group of fundamentalist Christians who had been lobbying them.
- 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 44:
  
  He closes the foreword by acknowledging that his proposals would have far-reaching impacts on railway staff, communities and industry - and passes the buck onto government to ensure that these consequences are managed appropriately.


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Pass-the-buckとは意味・読み方・使い方

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Pass-the-buckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Tatoebaでの「Pass-the-buck」の意味

Pass the buck.

「Pass-the-buck」の部分一致の例文検索結果

EDR日英対訳辞書での「Pass-the-buck」の意味

pass the buck

Weblio英語表現辞典での「Pass-the-buck」の意味

pass the buck

Weblio英和対訳辞書での「Pass-the-buck」の意味

pass the buck

pass the buck (to a person)

Wiktionary英語版での「Pass-the-buck」の意味

pass the buck

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関連する語

Further reading

Weblio例文辞書での「Pass-the-buck」に類似した例文

Pass the buck.

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Pass-the-buckとは意味・読み方・使い方