blame game
noun [C] informalDefinition
› a situation in which people try to blame each other for something bad that has happened: Police and the government are playing the blame game over the mistaken shooting of a suspected terrorist.Blaming and accusing
(Definition of blame game noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- accusing adjective
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- haul sb up phrasal verb
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