mutually making excuses

mutually making excuses

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is "H ù Xi ā ngtu ī w ě I", which means to pass the buck between each other, no one is willing to take responsibility. It's from burning books because of the past.

Idiom explanation

Committee member: also make "buck" and shirk; shirk committee member. Put the blame on others.

The origin of Idioms

Ming Lizhi's burning a book to remember the past: he even pushed each other to understand philosophy.

Analysis of Idioms

Mutual evasion

Idiom usage

It means irresponsible. Examples each other ～, they are abandoned and not accepted, but left to use with the Jin people. A collection of new issues of Xuanhe in Song Dynasty