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Idioms and Phrases

Burden someone with, as in Before he left on vacation, he saddled his assistant with many tasks he hadn't time to do himself . [Late 1600s]
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Example Sentences

Don’t saddle someone with your baggage just because.

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“At the same time, it’s a high burden and a horrific standard to saddle someone with that criminal record when they weren’t criminally negligent or reckless or intentional.”

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“To saddle someone with a criminal record that could decimate their career, their family, their ability to provide for their family, have a future, is, on its face, not big of a price to pay when someone dies and there’s a tragic, wrongful, horrible death,” said Jeremy Saland, who represented the bus driver in the Manhattan trial.

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“My son is just 18 and you don’t want to saddle someone with a place like this unless they are really passionate about it.”

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"Rather than saddle someone with being the person replacing Dave Niehaus, one of the options is to restructure what we're doing moving forward and make 2011 a transitional season," said Randy Adamack, the Mariners' vice president of communications.

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