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推诿
tuī​wěi

pass the buck

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
推诿 (推諉) tuī​wěi
pass the buck verb
to shift blame or responsibility onto others
shirk verb
to avoid or evade one's responsibility or duty

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.80 per million

Cross-References

Has variant

  • 推委 tuī​wěi

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)