Idiom
blame game
Meaning
A situation in which people attempt to blame others rather than trying to resolve a problem.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Stop the blame game and fix the problem.”
“Instead of working together to find a solution, the team members spent the entire meeting playing the blame game.”
“The project failed because the leadership was more interested in playing the blame game than in addressing the underlying structural issues.”
Examples
simple
“Stop the blame game and fix the problem.”
contextual
“Instead of working together to find a solution, the team members spent the entire meeting playing the blame game.”
complex
“The project failed because the leadership was more interested in playing the blame game than in addressing the underlying structural issues.”
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