If the Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress are blaming each other as being responsible for a particular negative occurrence, what are they doing, idiomatically speaking? Are they trading blames, trading blame or playing the blame game? You may think that because two parties – or people – are involved, they must be trading blames.
This is not correct because the implied or intended idiom is a fixed expression whose object is singular and so rejects pluralisation. So, even if all the parties in the country or more than a million people are involved, all they are still doing is trading blame:Tade and Johnson are trading blame of the loss of the bag. The senators are trading blame over the failure to elect their leader. There is actually a big question over ‘trade blame’ itself as an idiom.
The police and the mayor are playing the blame game over the mistaken shooting of a suspected terrorist.I thus advise you use the standard and more popular ‘play the blame game’ whenever you need to express the indicated sense. Meanwhile, ‘trade blow/ insults’ is an acceptable idiom.Note that you also take issue with someone or more people – when you strongly disagree with them on a matter.
The principal always takes issues with the staff whenever they want to put management under pressure. The principal always takes issue with the staff whenever they want to put management under pressure. ‘Wash dirty linen in public’ is another idiom with a head whose form you need to respect – number-wise. It is dirty linen, not dirty linens!The actress and her husband are washing their dirty linen in public. This may not be an idiom but it is also uncountable.
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