blame game

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blame game (plural blame games)

  1. (informal, idiomatic) A situation in which people attempt to blame others rather than trying to resolve a problem.
    Synonym: buck-passing
  • 2021 November 28, Peter Walker, “UK and France playing ‘blame game’ after Channel deaths, say Labour”, in The Guardian:
    The UK and France are “engaging in a blame game” over people making perilous Channel crossings in small boats, Labour has said, rather than sitting down together to try to work out a way to prevent more deaths.
  • 2022 April 6, Industry Insider, “Fixture clashes”, in RAIL, number 954, page 68:
    A blame game is taking place between Network Rail and the Football Association regarding the closure of the West Coast Main Line over the Easter Bank Holiday, which coincides with an FA Cup semi-final taking place at Wembley Stadium on April 16.
  • 2022 November 12, Toby Helm, Phillip Inman, “Revealed: the £30bn cost of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget”, in The Guardian:
    The estimates of the cost of “Trussonomics” will intensify a bitter blame game now being played out at the top of the Tory party.
  • 2023 August 9, Raphael Rashid, “‘Worst nightmare’: South Korea mulls disastrous Scout jamboree”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
    Political parties are ensnared in a blame game, with the ruling and opposition parties blaming each other. An audit will no doubt follow.
  • 2024 November 7, Reid J. Epstein, Lisa Lerer, Nicholas Nehamas, “Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
    Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future
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