What is the meaning of the phrase “kick the can down the road”?
Ehow (2011), explains the children’s game “kicking the can”.
“Kicking the can” is much like hide and seek. It is often played in the street thus the “down the road” part. In most forms of the game, one person (who is not “it”) kicks the can, then a person who is “it” must retrieve the can before he or she can chase and find the other players.
Kicking the can as far down the road as possible gives the other players the maximum possible time to hide, scatter or whatever is required by the game.
Thus figuratively, “kicking the can down the road” is similar to a delaying tactic, putting it off until later, etc.
Malinvestment
Sooner or later we will be forced to allow supply and demand to properly rebalance the hocus-pocus. Government might begin the process by abandoning their debauched funding allocation, killing artificially low costs of credit, and eliminating unsustainable increases in the money supply. This is the only way genuine growth will occur.
NYG
eHow. (2011). How to play kick the can. Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/how_309_play-kick-can.html
~TVR
