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BioEnchanted posted:I looked it up out of curiosity: The "Buck" of the phrase "To Pass the Buck" was a special card in a few card games, placed in front of the dealer to mark him. When it came time for the dealer to change the buck would be passed to the next player, and so would the responsibility of dealing. "The Buck Stops Here" was a play on this phrase meaning that President Truman would not pass on his responsibilities to lower level delegates (and let them take the fall if it failed) but would accept them wholeheartedly, along with any blame that would be assigned I'll do you one better: according to linguistics historian Richard Lederer, the buck was originally a buck knife that would be used to represent what is currently the dealer button; in other words, the player with the buck knife in front of them would be expected to deal if there was not an independent dealer at the table. The rest is the same.
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