lie at someone's doorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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lie at someone's door (三人称単数 現在形 lies at someone's door, 現在分詞 lying at someone's door, 過去形 lay at someone's door, 過去分詞 lain at someone's door)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be the fault or responsibility of someone.
   • 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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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