Very few of them, however, blame it on an invisible man living inside their head.
Men who have been rejected by their wives and girlfriends are always desperate to blame it on anything but the truth.
Blame it on George Washington Perry, a slight 20-year-old farmer from McRae, Ga.
Blame it on what is known as the sequester, which forced spending cuts across the federal government starting on March 1.
They refuse to ship me the tablet I PAID FOR because of this and will only blame it on their system.
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Faced with examples of such grotesquely slanted reporting in a reputable newspaper, critics often tend to blame it on journalistic ignorance.
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"Tonight, I think fatigue caught up to us a little bit, but I'm not going to blame it on that, " Sanders said.
Blame it on stressful jobs, salt-laden fast-food, smoking and lack of exercise.
Whatever is going wrong in the economy, blame it on the weather.
You can blame it on concerns about drug company profits under Obamacare.
Faced with our collective heartbreak over the loss of yet another hero, we Americans will blame it on the man rather than ourselves.
"I don't know if he wanted me to play the whole 48 or not, but he can't blame it on himself, " he said.
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Every time something goes wrong, they find an employee to blame it on, and they take full credit for everything that goes right.
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They can try to blame it on declines in the price of oil, but if they had adopted better policies this would not pose a problem.
French opposition parties are accusing police of burning the restaurant in order to blame it on Corsican nationalist groups, who are waging a violent campaign for independence.
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But I can't, I won't, blame it on typographical error.
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Such openness is in complete contrast to Saudi Arabia's original response to the problem, which was for many years to try to cover it up or blame it on foreigners.
So liberals pin it on corporate greed, while conservatives blame it on corporations being scared off by government regulations and an anti-business administration, but corporations operate in the real world of the economy.
The clear inference would be that, in any future terrorist attack, the United States would be unlikely to blame it on Iraq if the attack could plausibly be identified as the work of Muslim extremists.
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Blame it on regulation, banks have had to strike back with rule changes that impact how they can charge overdraft fees, as well as how much they can get from fees related to debit-card swipe fees.
Now, when someone confronts you on why you no longer follow them you can just blame it on Twitter even if your dirty little secret is that you had quietly deleted them when no one was looking.
Usually, we blame it on the Judge.
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Indeed, though there's no denying music's old business model has taken a massive hit in recent years--blame it on piracy, the Web or the advent of the recordable CD--there's still plenty of money to be made in the music industry.
Blame it on childish innocence or fantastic imaginations, but most kids are in for repeated heartbreak when they get older--like when they realize how hard ballerina jobs are to come by, and when they find out what dancers get paid.
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