buck-passing

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Blameshifting; the act of absolving oneself of responsibility or concern for a given matter by claiming to lack authority or jurisdiction. idiomatic,uncountable
    — It's from here onwards that the whole web of buck-passing and excuses began.

词源

Etymology tree
English buck
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.
Proto-Italic *pattus
Vulgar Latin passus
Proto-Italic *-āzi
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Vulgar Latin -ereinflu.
Vulgar Latin -āre
Vulgar Latin *passāre
Old French passerbor.
Middle English passen
English pass
English -ing
English passing
English buck-passing
From buck + passing.
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