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laid something at the feet of

laid something at the feet of is the simple past and past participle of lay something at the feet of.

Meaning of lay something at the feet of

Verb

lay something at the feet of (third-person singular simple present lays something at the feet of, present participle laying something at the feet of, simple past and past participle laid something at the feet of)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To assign responsibility for (something) to (someone).
    • How much of our current agricultural policy can we lay at the feet of the Iowa caucuses?2009 Mar/Apr, Clara Jeffery, “Michael Pollan fixes dinner”, in Mother Jones, volume 34, number 2, page 32

Questions about laid something at the feet of

What is laid something at the feet of the simple past and past participle of?
Laid something at the feet of is the simple past and past participle of lay something at the feet of.

Words near laid something at the feet of in the dictionary

  1. laid rubber
  2. laid salt on someone's tail
  3. laid siege
  4. laid some skin on
  5. laid something at the door of
  6. laid something at the feet of
  7. laid store by
  8. laid the dust
  9. laid the groundwork
  10. laid the hammer down
  11. laid the smack down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laid something at the feet of (page history and authors); lay something at the feet of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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