"lie at someone's door" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Compare lay at someone's door.",
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      "form": "lies at someone's door",
      "tags": [
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "lay at someone's door",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "lain at someone's door",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "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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        "To be the fault or responsibility of someone."
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        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To be the fault or responsibility of someone."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "at someone's door"
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  "word": "lie at someone's door"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Compare lay at someone's door.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lies at someone's door",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lying at someone's door",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lay at someone's door",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lain at someone's door",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "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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        "To be the fault or responsibility of someone."
      ],
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  "word": "lie at someone's door"
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