Passing the Buck: From the Buck Knife to Dealer Buttons and How We Assign Responsibility

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We use the phrase "pass the buck" in everyday speech to describe shifting responsibility, but that idiom has a surprisingly concrete origin: a physical buck knife or token used at poker tables to mark who was next to deal