与权利和责任（authority and responsibility）相关的英语习语

carry the can
承受指责，承担责任，背黑锅

• As usual, I was left to carry the can.
  像往常一样，就剩下我来承担责任。
• We are a luxury restaurant and if people have a bad experience, we have to carry the can.
  我们这是豪华饭店，如果客人用餐不愉快，背黑锅的就是我们。

get/let (sb) off the hook
（使）摆脱困境，逃避惩罚

• His opponents have no intention of letting him off the hook until he agrees to leave office immediately.
  在他同意马上离职之前，他的对手不打算放过他。
• Government officials accused of bribery and corruption get off the hook with monotonous regularity.
  被指控贪污受贿的政府官员无一例外总能脱身。

leave sb to their own devices
听任某人自行其是；对某人不加干涉

• He seemed to be a responsible person, so I left him to his own devices.
  他看起来是个很负责的人，因此我让他自己决定。
• Left to his own devices, Osborn is a fluent — and often original — guitarist.
  任其自由发挥时，奥斯本是一个弹奏流畅、常常富有创意的吉他手。

be on the receiving end
遭受、承受、经历（不愉快的事）；；成为受害者

• Sales assistants are often on the receiving end of verbal abuse from customers.
  售货员经常遭到顾客的辱骂。
• You saw hate in their eyes and you were on the receiving end of that hate.
  你在他们的眼睛里看到仇恨，而且你就是他们仇恨的对象。
• Having been on the receiving end of their back stabbing, I have become very aware of what I say and to whom.
  作为她们那些暗箭的靶子，我变得对自己说的话以及和谁说话都非常注意。
• She found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of criticism.
  她发现自己遭到众多的批评。

at sb's beck and call
听命于，唯……之命是从

• Go and get it yourself! I'm not at your beck and call, you know.
  自己去拿！我才不听你使唤呢。
• I knew he was trying to wheedle me into being at his beck and call.
  我知道这是他拉拢我，好让我俯首贴耳地为他效劳。

get your own way
（说服别人以便）达到自己的目的，能按自己的主意行事，随心所欲

• My little brother always gets his own way.
  我的小弟总是能遂心如愿。
• She always gets her own way in the end.
  到最后总是她说了算。

go your own way
一意孤行；我行我素

• It's best to let her go her own way if you don't want a fight.
  你要不想吵架的话，最好是随她去好了。