buck-passing

Related to buck-passing: the buck stops here

buck-pass·ing

(bŭk′păs′ĭng)n. Informal The shifting of responsibility or blame to another: "smothered in avalanches of recriminations and orgies of buck-passing" (Forbes).
[buck (from a poker player's passing the marker, or buck, to the next player when not wanting to deal).]
buck′-pass′er n.