Somebody else's problem


"Somebody else's problem" is a phrase used to describe an issue which is dismissed by a person on the grounds that they consider somebody else to be responsible for it. The term is also used to refer to a factor that is "out of scope" in a particular context.

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's 1982 novel Life, the Universe and Everything introduces the idea of an "SEP field" as a kind of cloaking device. The character Ford Prefect says,
The narration then explains: