hand on the baton
hand on the baton
To bestow one's responsibility or job upon someone else. An allusion to a relay race in which one runner literally hands a baton to the next runner. I have so much work to do now that my boss has retired and handed on the baton to me.
See also: baton, hand, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- baton
- pass on the baton
- pass the baton
- hand over the baton
- front runner
- front-runner
- hand over the reins
- eat (someone's) dust
- eat someone's dust
- drunk