Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “lay something at someone’s door“ and its meaning is “to blame someone for something; to hold someone responsible for something”.
Example Sentence: Successive governments can be charged with economic mismanagement — fiscal and budgetary — but you can implicate the Gotabaya Rajapaksa presidency with a lot of missteps that led the country to where it is now, staring over the economic precipice (a very steep cliff). What you see now is a perfect storm — economic mismanagement over the years and political malfeasance, which you can lay at the door of the Rajapaksas.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article What can the world do to help Sri Lanka? and click here to read it.
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