Meaning of lie at someone's door | Babel Free

Definitions

To be the fault or responsibility of someone.

idiomatic, intransitive

Examples

“Appointed foreign minister in 2004, he has since then through successive US administrations developed a Putinesque revulsion for all western ideas, if not all western consumer durables. At one point, he said all the ills of the 20th century colonialism, two world wars and the cold war lay at the door of American arrogance.”

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