blame

[bleim] 1. verb

1) (to consider someone or something responsible for something bad: I blame the wet road for the accident.) kriviti

2) (to find fault with (a person): I don't blame you for wanting to leave.) očitati

2. noun

(the responsibility (for something bad): He takes the blame for everything that goes wrong.) odgovornost

- blameless

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I [bleim]

transitive verb

(for) grajati, oštevati; za odgovornega smatrati

no one can blame you for it — nihče vam tega ne more zameriti

who is to blame? — čigava krivda je?

colloquially they blamed it on us — smatrali so nas za krive

slang blame me if — naj me vrag vzame, če

II [bleim]

noun

graja, ukor; krivda, odgovornost

to bear the blame of — biti kriv česa

to lay ( —ali put, throw) the blame on s.o. ( —ali at s.o.'s door) — dolžiti koga, zvračati krivdo na koga

to take the blame on o.s. — prevzeti krivdo nase

to shift the blame on s.o. — (z)valiti krivdo na koga

it is small blame to you — tega vam ni očitati