originate with (someone or something)
originate with (someone or something)
To begin with someone or something; to have been started or instigated by someone or something. The idea actually originates with my friend Michael, who told me his a dream he had about a robot that travels the cosmos. The trail of dirty money originates with a shell company in the Seychelles.
See also: originate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
originate with someone or something
to have been started by someone, something, or during a time period or event. Did this policy originate with you? This idea originated with the committee.
See also: originate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- begin with
- begin with (someone or something)
- be/have done with somebody/something
- be in line with (someone or something)
- better of
- (someone or something) promises well
- bird has flown, the
- beware of
- beware of (someone or something)
- be rough on (someone or something)