take matters into one's own hands
blame game
scratch one's own itch
not know which way to turn
overinternalize
take the bull by the horns
paper over the cracks
reinventing the wheel
sit on one's hands
take a view
box oneself into a corner
attend
out of one's league
grit one's teeth
paint oneself into a corner
reinvent the wheel
let bygones be bygones
completed staff work
A-type conflict
trouble
bother
trouble oneself
inconvenience oneself
selfawarewolf
in a bind
take something in stride
what you don't know can't hurt you
grapple
come to grips
pragmatist
fence-sitting
run interference
think
buay tank
peacefaking
be left holding the baby
political football
if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging
hack it
be a man
over a barrel
out of one's depth
have someone by the short hairs
cross that bridge when one comes to it
neglecter
bring up against
confuddled
nonattention
fools rush in where angels fear to tread
put out a fire
non-player character
head-in-the-sand
careless
haul up
lay at someone's door
boggle
applicationism
piling on
out to get someone
band-aid
suck it up
incompetent
cross a bridge before one comes to it
pass over
elephant in the room
line of attack
gorilla in the room
incompetent person
with one hand tied behind one's back
contend
change the subject
lone gunman
divergent thinker
self-determination
tiptoe around
let someone down gently
liaise
naive
take the wheel
resource
cop out
cover someone's ass
gossip
plan B
resourcefulness
imagination
opt out
leave someone out in the cold
inability
make short work of
end run
in the lap of the gods
the end of one's rope
unreliable
technology transfer
a trouble shared is a trouble halved
personal transaction
breeze past
duh factor
draw into