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

[Robin Hamilton]

Perhaps somewhere, hovering in the background, is, "(Blame it) on me".

RH.

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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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