| 单词 | father something on somebody |
| 释义 | father something on somebodyfather something on somebody phrasal verbphr v British EnglishBrE SAY/STATE formal to claim that someone is responsible for something when they are not 把〔责任、某物的来源等〕误加于某人 A collection of Irish stories was fathered on him. 他被误传为一本爱尔兰故事集的作者。 Examples from the Corpus father on • He repeated the words and phrases while his father looked proudly on.• Nature makes mothers but societies have to make fathers.• Her father jumped on the croc and wrestled her out of its jaws.• Helen Saltonstall, my mother, married Amon Dempster, my father, on the first Sunday in October, 1869.• My father, on the other hand, could not be so easily summed up in a single paternal nickname.• In other words, it was the sins of the father getting visited on the son.• His father died on Thursday but his family decided not to tell him until after yesterday's race. → father something on somebody at father2(1) |
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