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lie with
Idioms and Phrases
Be decided by, dependent on, or up to. For example, The choice of restaurant lies with you . Starting about 1300 this phrase meant “to have sexual intercourse with,†a usage that is now obsolete. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
For agency workers, the responsibility lies with the agency to conduct the relevant checks.
But Kennedy sells the lies with an appealing message that the homespun wisdom of "moms" should be trusted over what all those scientists and doctors have to say.
But the real power in Serbia lies with Vucic, who insists that he is going nowhere.
The document charging Bolsonaro says the responsibility for acts that were harmful to democratic order lies with a criminal organisation led by Bolsonaro himself.
"Some of the frustration lies with the travel companies who inflate the prices," says Miss Taylor-Clarke.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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