assign to

assign (something) to

To designate someone as responsible for doing something, or as responsible for having done something. Oh, I already assigned that project to Nicole. Since I was driving when we got into the accident, they assigned the blame to me.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

assign someone or something to someone or something

to designate someone or something as belonging to someone or something else. They assigned the new car to Roger. They assigned the new worker to the mail room.
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assign something to someone

to attribute something to someone; to blame something on someone. We were forced to assign the blame to Robert. They assigned the responsibility for the accident to the driver of the car.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • assign
  • assign (something) to
  • consign
  • consign (something) to (someone or something)
  • consign to
  • ride a tiger
  • concern (someone) with (someone or something)
  • concern with
  • you had one job
  • have (someone or something) on (one's) hands
References in classic literature
Yes, Socrates, said Glaucon, and the whole of life is the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing of such discourses.
Republic
We will assign to them, as partners in the march, those lowly laborers and handicraftsmen, who have pined, as with a dying thirst, after the unattainable fountains of knowledge.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories
The attempts to arrive at a fair and equitable grade to assign to an individual student, without distorting either the student's standing in class or comparative ranking with students at that or other institutions, has proven to be one of the most difficult quests of the faculty member.
Fairness in Grading
The records retention module contains information about the record series or classification (e.g., subjects, description), a code to assign to records, and a records retention period or formula.
Applying Records Retention to Electronic Records
As indicated by Bright, a number of courts have acknowledged the relevance of such attributes and have determined what value, if any, to assign to them.
"Swing vote" attributes of transferred stock: implications for minority interest discounts
The species they assign to the new find, H., rudolfensis, eventually migrated as far south as Lake Malawi, they state.
Fossil jaw offers clues to human ancestry