father someone/thing on

father someone/thing on
assign paternity of a child or responsibility for something to.
father

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  • father — noun 1》 a man in relation to his child or children.     ↘a male animal in relation to its offspring.     ↘a man who provides care and protection.     ↘the oldest member of a society or other body.     ↘(the Father) (in Christian belief) the first …   English new terms dictionary

  • Father Gilbert Mysteries — is an original miniseries within Focus on the Family s Radio Theatre. The nine episodes produced from 2001 06 focus on Father Louis Gilbert (voiced by Adrian Plass), a former Scotland Yard detective who became an Anglican priest and the vicar of… …   Wikipedia

  • “Thing on the Doorstep, The“ —    Novelette (10,830 words); written August 21–24, 1933. First published in WT(January 1937); first collected in O;corrected text in DH;annotated version in An2 and TD.    The narrator, Daniel Upton, tells of his young friend Edward Derby, who… …   An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia

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  • father — [[t]fɑ͟ːðə(r)[/t]] ♦ fathers, fathering, fathered 1) N FAMILY Your father is your male parent. You can also call someone your father if he brings you up as if he was this man. His father was a painter... He would be a good father to my children …   English dictionary

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  • tell someone a thing or two —    If you tell someone a thing or two, you express you thoughts (usually criticism) very clearly.     Let me tell you a thing or two about your son s behaviour said John to the boy s father …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • as is someone — as is/does/has/etc someone formal phrase used for saying that someone or something else is the same does the same thing has done the same thing etc Frank is a fine athlete, as was his father before him. I travel to London every day, as do most of …   Useful english dictionary

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