lie at someone's door en · VERB
Etymology
Compare lay at someone's door.
Meanings
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To be the fault or responsibility of someone.
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.
2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lying at someone's door | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| lay at someone's door | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| lain at someone's door | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| lies at someone's door | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |