"lay something at the feet of" meaning in English

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      "form": "lays something at the feet of",
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        "present",
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    {
      "form": "laying something at the feet of",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "laid something at the feet of",
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    {
      "form": "laid something at the feet of",
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2009 Mar/Apr, Clara Jeffery, “Michael Pollan fixes dinner”, in Mother Jones, volume 34, number 2, page 32:",
          "text": "How much of our current agricultural policy can we lay at the feet of the Iowa caucuses?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, 'Disappointed': Too late for off-site pill testing at Spilt Milk, The Canberra Times:",
          "text": "He did not lay the blame at the feet of the territory government, but rather conservative politicians that might have had a hand in convincing the federal government, and through it, the authority, to put a stop to the mooted trial.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)."
      ],
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          "responsibility",
          "responsibility"
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        "(transitive, idiomatic) To assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "lay something at the door of"
        }
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        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
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        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "patasxanatvutʻyunə dnel",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "պատասխանատվությունը դնել"
        },
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "vran gcʻel",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "վրան գցել"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "responsabilitzar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "english": "to assign something annoying to someone",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "endossar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "english": "to blame something on someone",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "carregar el mort"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "將責任交給某人"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiāng zérèn jiāo gěi mǒurén",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "将责任交给某人"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "kiittää"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "english": "quelque chose",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "accuser de (quelqu’un)"
        },
        {
          "alt": "die Schuld (für)",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "in die Schuhe schieben"
        },
        {
          "alt": "+ komuś",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "przydzielać odpowiedzialność"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
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            "perfective",
            "with-dative"
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          "word": "przydzielić odpowiedzialność"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "responsabilizar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vozložítʹ otvétstvennostʹ",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "возложи́ть отве́тственность"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "note": "sváliti krivìcu pf (+ na of malfeasant, + za of offence, both in accusative)",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
          "word": "responsabilizar"
        }
      ]
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  ],
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  "word": "lay something at the feet of"
}

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      "form": "lays something at the feet of",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "laying something at the feet of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "laid something at the feet of",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid something at the feet of",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2009 Mar/Apr, Clara Jeffery, “Michael Pollan fixes dinner”, in Mother Jones, volume 34, number 2, page 32:",
          "text": "How much of our current agricultural policy can we lay at the feet of the Iowa caucuses?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, 'Disappointed': Too late for off-site pill testing at Spilt Milk, The Canberra Times:",
          "text": "He did not lay the blame at the feet of the territory government, but rather conservative politicians that might have had a hand in convincing the federal government, and through it, the authority, to put a stop to the mooted trial.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)."
      ],
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          "responsibility",
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        "(transitive, idiomatic) To assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "lay something at the door of"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "patasxanatvutʻyunə dnel",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "պատասխանատվությունը դնել"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "vran gcʻel",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "վրան գցել"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "responsabilitzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "english": "to assign something annoying to someone",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "endossar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "english": "to blame something on someone",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "carregar el mort"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "將責任交給某人"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiāng zérèn jiāo gěi mǒurén",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "将责任交给某人"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "kiittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "quelque chose",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "accuser de (quelqu’un)"
    },
    {
      "alt": "die Schuld (für)",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "in die Schuhe schieben"
    },
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      "alt": "+ komuś",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "przydzielać odpowiedzialność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "tags": [
        "perfective",
        "with-dative"
      ],
      "word": "przydzielić odpowiedzialność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "responsabilizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vozložítʹ otvétstvennostʹ",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "возложи́ть отве́тственность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "note": "sváliti krivìcu pf (+ na of malfeasant, + za of offence, both in accusative)",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to assign responsibility for (something) to (someone)",
      "word": "responsabilizar"
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  ],
  "word": "lay something at the feet of"
}