to pass on the responsibility
to give a responsible task to someone else after having worked on it for a while
to hand on the torch
The director of the company passed the torch after he got too sick to take care of the company matters.
I am going to pass the torch to managing the household to my daughter-in-law after the wedding rituals are completed.
The ace racer retired from car racing and said in his speech that he wanted to pass the torch now to someone who was younger.
He passed the torch to me after having completed so much of the project himself.
There is no origin for this idiom
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