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• to lay/put the blame for something on somebody
• the government will have to take the blame for the riots.
• why do i always get the blame for everything that goes wrong?
• i’m not interested in apportioning blame for the accident (= deciding how much each person involved was responsible for it).

blame

1. responsibility for doing something badly or wrongly; saying that somebody is responsible for something
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• to lay/put the blame for something on somebody
• The government will have to take the blame for the riots.
• Why do I always get the blame for everything that goes wrong?
• I’m not interested in apportioning blame for the accident (= deciding how much each person involved was responsible for it).

Extra Examples

• He was absolved of all blame.
• My brother broke the window, but I got the blame.
• The blame lies with the police, who failed to act quickly enough.
• The company refused to accept any blame for the damage.
• The government must share the blame for this confusion.
• The government tried to lay the blame at the door of the unions.
• They placed the blame squarely on the doctor.
• They tried to shift the blame onto someone else.
• I’m not interested in apportioning blame for the accident.
• She put the blame on me.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French blamer, blasmer (verb), from a popular Latin variant of ecclesiastical Latin blasphemare ‘reproach, revile, blaspheme’, from Greek blasphēmein, from blasphēmos ‘evil-speaking’.