Examples of 'passing the buck' in a sentence

Meaning of "passing the buck"

To avoid taking responsibility for something by shifting or assigning it to someone else
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  • present participle of pass the buck

How to use "passing the buck" in a sentence

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passing the buck
It means stop passing the buck to babies.
Passing the buck is a specialty with these people.
That is just passing the buck again.
Passing the buck elsewhere will not be possible.
You are very good at passing the buck.
All are passing the buck on the matter.
Which means you are passing the buck.
Stop passing the buck to someone else.
I know you hate passing the buck.
Bush passing the buck on action against global warming.
What you are doing here is passing the buck.
If we keep passing the buck nothing can be done.
It is the old story of passing the buck.
He is just passing the buck to the next governor.
This is more like passing the buck.

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You are passing the buck to things like disgust and mendacity.
Adults should stop passing the buck.
Let us stop passing the buck and divide up the work.
Please do not embarrass yourselves by passing the buck.
We have to stop passing the buck on this issue.
Taking expert opinion seriously is not passing the buck.
Let's stop passing the buck.
And passing the buck back and forth does not help.
The police are passing the buck.
Passing the buck and playing around with refugees in this way is not acceptable.
The shifts are passing the buck.
Passing the buck from one party to another will not solve the problem of addiction.
Let us not go on passing the buck on these issues.
They have turned it over to CID but they are passing the buck.
He was just passing the buck.
Passing the buck or letting the people decide?
Each agency is passing the buck.
I got the runaround from middle managers, just passing my phone calls around, passing the buck.
I think you are passing the buck.
He keeps passing the buck to the Lord Jehovah.
Expect a lot of passing the buck.
You are passing the buck? You are passing the buck to things like disgust and mendacity.
Rajapaksa is now trying to save himself by passing the buck to others.
Always passing the buck.
San Francisco had paid for passing the buck.
Avoid passing the buck.
All I see is a politician passing the buck.
I hate passing the buck.
China thinks South Korea is just passing the buck.
No more passing the buck.
This kind of passing on, is like passing the buck.
I am not passing the buck.
In other words, we will just keep passing the buck.
You are passing the buck.
They do not indict, he looks clean for passing the buck.

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Examples of using Passing
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I was passing by and could not resist these
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