English Dictionary

blame game

IPA（発音記号）

/bleɪm ɡeɪm/

名詞

慣用表現 くだけた表現

(informal, idiomatic) A situation in which people attempt to blame others rather than trying to resolve a problem.

日本語の意味

（非公式・慣用表現）問題の解決よりも、互いに相手の非を追及し、責任を押し付け合う状況 / （同）責任転嫁し合う状態、互いに責任を負わせる行為

Instead of fixing the software bug, the team got stuck in a blame game that delayed the release.

ソフトウェアのバグを修正する代わりに、チームは責任のなすりつけ合いに陥り、リリースが遅れた。

意味（1）

(informal, idiomatic) A situation in which people attempt to blame others rather than trying to resolve a problem.

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.

blame games （ plural ）