tarmac:
/ˈtɑr·mæk/ n [U]an area of ground covered with a hard surface, esp. the areas of an airport where aircraft park, land, and take off.
liable
/ˈlɑɪ·ə·bəl/ adj [+ to infinitive]
likely to do, happen, or experience something.
"pass the buck":
to leave a difficult problem for someone else to deal with.
wild-goose chase(idiomatic)
(figuratively) A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy pursuit.
I went on a wild-goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them.
A task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome.
Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging tools.
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