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blame for

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*blame for something
the responsibility of having done something wrong or caused something bad to happen. (*Typically: accept ~; bear ~; shoulder ~; take~.) I absolutely refuse to shoulder the blame for the entire fiasco!
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blame someone for something

to hold someone responsible for something; to name someone as the cause of something. Please don't blame Jill for it. She blamed herself for everything that went wrong.
See also: blame


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When asked which, if any, political party was to blame for the crisis, 39 percent blamed the Republicans, 19 percent blamed Democrats, 24 percent said neither and 17 percent were undecided.
And hedge funds said the banks had themselves to blame for their situation.
When bad things happen the all too familiar response by all too many people is to find someone else to blame for it happening to them.
 
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