pin the blame on

phrase

: to assign (someone) the blame for something

When he got caught, he tried to pin the blame on someone else.

Eventually, researchers and governments did definitively pin the blame for that incident on the Russian government …

—Patrick Howell O'Neill

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above

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