page_title: Buck passing
hierarchical_section_title: Buck passing
context_page_description: Buck passing, or passing the buck, or sometimes the blame game, is the act of attributing to another person or group one's own responsibility. It is often used to refer to a strategy in power politics whereby a state tries to get another state to deter or fight an aggressor state while it remains on the sidelines.
context_section_description: Buck passing, or passing the buck, or sometimes (playing) the blame game, is the act of attributing to another person or group one's own responsibility. It is often used to refer to a strategy in power politics whereby a state tries to get another state to deter or fight an aggressor state while it remains on the sidelines.
caption: The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt (1854)
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