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laying something at the feet of

laying something at the feet of is the present participle and gerund 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 laying something at the feet of

What is laying something at the feet of the present participle and gerund of?
Laying something at the feet of is the present participle and gerund of lay something at the feet of.

Words near laying something at the feet of in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laying 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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