reproach (someone or something) with (something)
reproach (someone or something) with (something)
To accuse someone, oneself, or some group or organization of something; to blame someone, oneself, or some group for something. My mother reproached me with laziness after I failed to get top marks on my exam. He didn't speak to the woman in the end and later reproached himself with cowardice. The federal court formally reproached the banks with plunging the economy into recession,.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
reproach someone with something
to rebuke someone with reference to something. I wish you wouldn't continue to reproach me with things that happened long ago. She was reproached with something out of the past.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- reproach with
- usher into some place
- in contact
- make a hit with
- make a hit with (someone or something)
- member
- paid-up member (of something)
- a card-carrying member (of something)
- a paid-up member, etc.
- card-carrying member