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

[Laurence Horn]

From AAVE, I'd guess, but I can't find it in other dictionaries either. even urbandic (just in WordReference Forum and such).

LH

> On Feb 10, 2016, at 6:08 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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