Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

the buck stops with the parent—you!

Persian (Farsi) translation:

مسئولیت نهایی با والدین است یعنی با شماست

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Mar 26, 2012 19:09
12 yrs ago
English term

the buck stops with the parent—you!

English to Persian (Farsi) Other Psychology
in explaining the ddisadvantages of peer pressure the writer refer to this point that children often expect to be allowed do things that in reality are too mature for their age and at the end of the paragraph says:
I would be remiss if I did not point out that of course the peer pressure arises in the first place because one child becomes exposed to the age-inappropriate experience because her own parent allows it. In other words, the buck stops
with the parent—you!

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مسئولیت نهایی با والدین است یعنی با شماست

The basic phrase is "to pass the buck" meaning "to pass responsibility to someone else" از زیر بار مسئولیت شانه خالی کردن When we say "the buck stops here/there/somewhere" it means the responsibility rests with that person. Harry Truman, the American president, had a sign on his desk that said "The buck stops here" meaning that as the president he could not pass responsibility to anyone else.
Note from asker:
thank you very much Edward!
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agree Ahmad Hosseinzadeh : Nice and new (at least to me) information.
2 hrs
thanks!
agree Mohammad Ali Omrani
5 hrs
thanks!
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