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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

passing the buck

"passing the buck" while I was reading an article, I came across to this thing and I wonder what does it mean?

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Just Google [url=http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/pass-the-buck.html]"pass the buck"[/url] :)
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There's also a famous saying in the U.S. that "The buck stops here," supposedly said by Harry Truman. That means that he would take responsibility for whatever the situation was.
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I believe the expression comes from card games where there was a silver dollar kept on the table to indicate who the "banker" was. When that player no longer wanted the responsibility, he passed the dollar ("buck") to somebody else.
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