blame game | Idiomator

Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)A situation in which people attempt toblameothers rather than trying toresolvea problem.Synonym:buck-passing[1998January,David Foster Wallace, “The Depressed Person”, inHarpers Magazine, page58:She was, in addition, always extremely careful to share with the friends in her Support System her belief that it would be whiny and pathetic to play what she derisively called the "Blame Game" and blame her constant and indescribable adult pain on their parents' traumatic divorce or their cynical use of her.]2021November 28, Peter Walker, “UK and France playing ‘blame game’ after Channel deaths, say Labour”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:The UK and France are “engaging in ablame 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.2022April 6, Industry Insider, “Fixture clashes”, inRAIL, number954, page68:Ablame gameis 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 16.2022November 12, Toby Helm, Phillip Inman, “Revealed: the £30bn cost of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:The estimates of the cost of “Trussonomics” will intensify a bitterblame gamenow being played out at the top of the Tory party.2023August 9, Raphael Rashid, “‘Worst nightmare’: South Korea mulls disastrous Scout jamboree”, inThe Guardian‎[3],→ISSN:Political parties are ensnared in ablame game, with the ruling and opposition parties blaming each other. An audit will no doubt follow.2024November 7, Reid J. Epstein, Lisa Lerer, Nicholas Nehamas, “Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future”, inThe New York Times‎[4], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC:Devastated Democrats Play theBlame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future [title](Can wearchivethisURL?)

Examples:

EN: We can sit here all day and play the blame game... or we can start freaking people out!
ES: Podemos quedarnos aquí todo el día y asignar culpas o podemos empezar a alucinar a la gente.
EN: All: aw! Now you're playing the blame game, Mary. And you know what?
ES: Estás jugando el juego de la culpa y sabes que?
EN: Uh, but there's no point in playing the blame game.
ES: Pero no tiene caso buscar un culpable.
EN: No need to play the blame game, Allison.
ES: No es necesario que busquemos culpables, Allison.
EN: Oh, so now we're playing the blame game.
ES: ¡Ahora me echas la culpa a mi!
EN: Ah, the blame game.
ES: Ah, jugamos a buscar al culpable.
EN: Ok, let's not play the blame game, ok, karp?
ES: - ¿Qué? No juegues a echarle la culpa, Karp.
EN: And you, stop playing the blame game.
ES: Y tú, deja de jugar al juego de la culpa.
EN: Now, let's not play the shame and blame game.
ES: No juguemos a humillar y culpar.
EN: - Let's not get caught in the blame game.
ES: - Tú cometes errores, yo cometo errores. - No caigamos en el juego de culpas.
EN: Just quit the blame game.
ES: Que no asigne culpas.
EN: All right, let's not play the blame game, okay?
ES: De acuerdo, no juguemos al juego de culpar al otro, ¿okay?
EN: Hey, we're not here to play the blame game.
ES: Oye, oye, oye. Nos estamos aquí para jugar a quién es culpable.
EN: - Let's not play into his blame game.
ES: No caigamos en su juego de culpas. De acuerdo.
EN: So now we wanna start playing the blame game, huh?
ES: ¿Así que ahora empezaremos el juego de la culpa, eh?

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