lie at someone's door

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)To be thefaultorresponsibilityof someone.2022November 15,Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, inThe 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 warlay at the door of American arrogance.

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