palm off

What a lot of the players are asking is why exactly they as world champions are being palmed off with an assistant coach rather than the kind of world-class coach that their performances merit.

It’s offensive to try to paint them as self-interested NIMBYs who just want to palm off the problem on someone else.

Protected from the news media after her brother dies, Saskia is palmed off on family friends — Jane and Philip and their son, Xavier.

But he may get credit for not dissembling or trying to palm off the blame on others.

But the document emphasises that departments cannot just palm off problems to the Cabinet Office, and will have to staff their own ”department operations centres”, and fund any initiatives from existing budgets.