Thẻ ghi nhớ: chanel #3: shirking responsibilities (trốn tránh trách nhiệm)

bury/have your head in the sand

to refuse to think about unpleasant facts, although they will have an influence on your situation ~ giấu đầu dưới bãi cát, không muốn nghĩ về 1 vấn đề

• You've got to face facts here - you can't just bury your head in the

shrug off your responsibility for sth

to treat your responsibility as if it is not important or not a problem ~ rũ bỏ trách nhiệm

• You're a father and you can't simply shrug off your responsibility for your children.

abdicate (your) responsibility

to refuse to be responsible for something, when you should be or were before ~ thoái thác trách nhiệm (shirk your responsibilities/duties)

=> The government cannot abdicate responsibility for national security.

=> If you shirk your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will be much harder to deal with next month.

draw a veil over sth

not speak about sth because it is unpleasant and you do not want to think about it ~ che giấu cái gì xấu, vì mình không dám nói

• Yes, well I think we'll just draw a veil over what went on last night.

not face the music

not accept criticism or punishment for something you have done ~ không đối mặt với sự trừng phạt, chỉ trích

• We refused to face the music over our bold moves.

shift the blame/responsibility (onto somebody)

to make someone else responsible for something, especially for something bad that has happened ~ đổ trách nhiệm lên đầu ai

• It was a clear attempt to shift the responsibility for the crime onto the victim.

pass the buck

to blame someone or make them responsible for a problem that you should deal with ~ đồ trách nhiệm lên đầu ai

• She's always trying to pass the buck and I'm sick of it!

do a runner

to quickly leave a place to get out of paying for something or to avoid trouble or the law ~ chạy trốn, chuồn (ngó lơ, bỏ mặc ai/cái gì)

• He stole all the money in the office and did a runner.

gloss over sth

to avoid considering something, such as an embarrassing mistake and quickly continue talking about something else ~ tránh nhắc đến việc gì xấu hổ

• She glossed over the company's declining profits.

skate over/around sth

to avoid dealing completely with something or to fail to pay enough attention to it ~ trốn tránh giải quyết việc gì

• Providing homeless people with somewhere to stay when the weather is cold only skates around the problem, it doesn't solve it.

turn a blind eye

to ignore something that you know is wrong (close/shut your eyes to sth/giả mù)

=> Management often turns a blind eye to bullying in the workplace.

=> She closed her eyes to the fact that her son was stealing.

=> He shut his eyes to the problem and pretended that everything was fine.

[offensive when used to disabled people]

fall on deaf ears

if a suggestion or warning falls on deaf ears, no one listens to it ~ (lời đề nghị, cảnh báo...) không lọt vào tai

•Their appeals to release the hostages fell on deaf ears.

[offensive when used to disabled people]

turn a deaf ear

to ignore someone when they complain or ask for something (giả điếc)

• In the plist they've tended to turn a deaf ear to such requests.

[offensive when used to disabled people]

shun

(v): ignore or avoid something regularly (né tránh, mặc kệ)

=> As assistant to the president, he shunned the spotlight, but worked very hard behind the scenes.

=> After the trial he was shunned by friends and family alike.

snub/slight

insult someone by ignoring them or treating them as if they are not important (hắt hủi, coi thường)

=> I didn't mean to snub him - I genuinely didn't see him come into the room.

=> She felt very slighted by her boss when he didn't include her in the company-wide email.

give someone the cold shoulder

to intentionally ignore someone or treat someone in an unfriendly way ~ ngó lơ ai, ghẻ lạnh, giả vờ k bt ai đó (cut sb dead/look right through sb)

• I thought she really liked me, but the next day she gave me the cold shoulder.

leave sb in the lurch

to leave someone at a time when they need you to stay and help ~ bỏ mặc ai khi họ cần mình giúp đỡ

• He said he would help with the rent, but he left me in the lurch.

tune out (something/someone)

to stop paying attention to something or someone (tắt tiếng)

• She tends to tune out her parents' advice and make her own decisions.

look the other way

to ignore something bad or someone on purpose ~ quay ra chỗ khác

• All these predators got away with it because administrators just looked the other way and pretended it wasn't happening.

turn one's back on sb/sth

to ignore someone or something ~ quay lưng với ai/cái gì

• He said the nation had turned its back on the poor for many years.

pay no heed to sth/sb = take no heed of sth/sb

to pay no attention to sth/sb ~ không chú ý đến cái gì

• He paid no heed to my warning.

Question 1: Her parents had been burying their heads in the _ about the problem.

sand

Question 2: By invoking testosterone a man can __ responsibility for his own behaviour.

abdicate

Question 3: If you ___ your responsibilities/duties now, the situation will

be much harder to deal with next month.

shrug off

Question 4: I tried to draw a ___ over my inexperience so that the recruiter would seriously consider me for the job.

veil

Question 5: He refused to face the ___ over his inappropriate words.

music

Question 6: You were in charge of that project, so don't try to ____.

pass the buck

Question 7: Providing homeless people with somewhere to stay when the weather is cold only ___ the problem, it doesn't solve it.

skate over

Question 8: He ___ a blind eye to the problem and pretended that everything was fine.

turned

Question 9: She thinks you started that rumor about her-that's why she's been giving you the cold ___ all day.

shoulder

Question 10: His friends ran away and he was left holding the ____

baby

make headway

to begin to succeed

=> Has the city made any headway in attracting new businesses?

jump/get on the bandwagon

to join an activity that has become very popular or to change your opinion to one that has become very popular so that you can share in its success

=> After a couple of politicians won elections by promising to cut taxes, most of the others jumped on the bandwagon.

shoot the breeze

to spend time talking about things that are not important

=> We sat out on the porch, just shooting the breeze.