be to blame

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be responsible for sth bad

In the movies · 8

• believe sunspots are to blame. Hundreds are missing ...The Day After Tomorrow2004
• And perhaps also for that, I am to blame.The Bounty1984
• Since no one is to blame...Casablanca1943
• Not to blame anyone?Loving Vincent2017
• They blamed her.Blackfish2013
• You're to blame.The Woman in the Window2021
• If you wanna blame anybody blame meShark Tale2004
• Blame it on the pando, Blanc.Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022

Learn it in full scenes

• Casablanca1943
  • Ugarte Hands Rick the Letters
  • Ferrari Tries to Buy Rick's Café
  • Renault Warns Rick About Laszlo
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022
  • The Puzzle Box Invitation
  • Miles Welcomes the Group to His Island
  • Miles's Disruption Dinner Speech

From the same entry

• don't blame me
• I don't blame you
• only have yourself to blame

More idioms

• in return
• get the hell out
• on duty
• be under control
• break heart
• be too much
• don't ask
• take it for granted
• not believe your ears
• on the tip of your tongue
• one by one
• be in the same boat