The buck stops here
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"The buck stops here" is a phrase that was popularized by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. It refers to "passing the buck," i.e., handing responsibility to someone else, and the fact that the president has to make the decisions and accept the ultimate responsibility for those decisions.
The Buck, a marker or counter, was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal in the game of Poker. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the "buck", as the counter came to be called, to the next player
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- "The Buck Stops Here" Desk Sign on trumanlibrary.org
- Mitford M. Mathews, ed., A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1951), I, pages 198-99.