on shoulders

on (one's) shoulders

One's own responsibility or obligation. My siblings' care has been on my shoulders ever since our parents died.

*on someone's shoulders

Fig. on someone's own self. (*Typically: be ~; carry something ~; fall ~; have something ~; leave something ~; put something ~.) Why should all the responsibility fall on my shoulders? She carries a tremendous amount of responsibility on her shoulders.

词组	on shoulders
释义	on shoulders on (one's) shoulders One's own responsibility or obligation. My siblings' care has been on my shoulders ever since our parents died. See also: on, shoulder Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. on someone's shoulders Fig.* on someone's own self. (Typically: be ~; carry* something ~; fall ~; have something ~; leave something ~; put something ~.) Why should all the responsibility fall on my shoulders? She carries a tremendous amount of responsibility on her shoulders. See also: on, shoulder McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: play cards have swallowed a dictionary ain’t 1 phased phazed at one's at someone's open one’s kimono gripes one’s butt go out of
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