互相推诿 — Chinese idiom
互相推诿
hù xiāng tuī wěi
Traditional: 互相推諉
Meaning
- mutually shirking responsibilities ; each blaming the other
- passing the buck to and fro
- each trying to unload responsibilities onto the other
Character by character
- 互hùmutually, reciprocally
- 相xiāngmutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
- 推tuīto push; to expel; to drive; to decline
- 诿wěito shirk, to pass the buck, to make excuses
Idioms sharing a character
- 互为因果 hù wéi yīn guǒ
- 互诉衷肠 hù sù zhōng cháng
- 互通有无 hù tōng yǒu wú
- 一脉相承 yī mài xiāng chéng
- 世代相传 shì dài xiāng chuán
- 代代相传 dài dài xiāng chuán
- 以礼相待 yǐ lǐ xiāng dài
- 休戚相关 xiū qī xiāng guān
- 倾囊相授 qīng náng xiāng shòu
- 凶相毕露 xiōng xiàng bì lù
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