No Matter How You Say It: Responsibility
Word Origin
The word responsible comes from two Latin roots, responsum, which means “an answer, a reply” and spondere, which means “to promise”. Can you see how responsibility is a promised response?
Sign Language
Check out the following links from www.handspeak.com for the American Sign Language interpretation of the words:
Can you see how responsibility is shouldering a burden and irresponsibility is throwing it aside?
Responsibility Idioms
the finger of responsibility
The strongest blame of having done something wrong. Most often followed by “points at (someone or something)”.
Pass the buck
Placing blame or responsibility onto someone else
On somebody’s shoulders
To be responsible for someone
The buck stops here
To take responsibility for something
To see more visit the site from which these came:
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/responsibility
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