One Idiom One Day: Kick the can down the road
He is willing to do what it takes to resolve the issue not just kick the can down the road.
to leave a complicated issue for some other day; to postpone dealing with something in the hopes that it becomes someone else’s problem or it will go away
The phrase originally refers to a game that was played during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Children didn’t have access to many games and had to improvise and make their own. The game was much the same as hide and seek. If a hider could kick the can before getting tagged by It, everyone went free. It is difficult to connect this game with the idea of postponing an event until it becomes someone else’s problem. This is how the phrase is most often used in political circles. It is more plausible to believe that it relates to kicking a discarded can out of sight so that picking it up becomes someone else’s problem. The phrase has only been used since the late 1980s and there is no definitive origin.
E.g., Kicking the can down the road is not a solution to any problem. We need to fix it permanently.
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