[Ads-l] on = 'the fault or responsibility of'

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 10 11:08:26 UTC 2016


I've been hearing this more and more, but I can't say when I first noticed
it - possibly long ago.

Not in OED, so far as I can tell.

Mario Rubio: "Our disappointment tonight is not on you, it's on me."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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