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Badly Seek Lay Blame Equipment Admit Lack Skill

Word a bad workman blames his tools
Description someone who has done something badly will seek to lay the blame on the equipment rather than admit to their own lack of skill - proverb

A similar 13th-century French proverb observed someone who has done something badly will seek to lay the blame on the equipment rather than admit to their own lack of skill - p

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