have sth on your hands
If you have a difficult situation on your hands, you have to deal with it:
If the police carry on like this they'll have a riot on their hands.
She has a battle on her hands if she wants the organization to change.
to be to blame for something:
We have the blood of these people on our hands (= we are responsible for their death or injury).
His death is on the government's hands.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Duty, obligation and responsibility
- accountable
- answer for sb/sth
- answer for sth
- answer to sb
- answerable
- brother
- commitment
- fail
- I am not my brother's keeper idiom
- in the hot seat idiom
- incharge
- it's your own lookout idiom
- job
- portfolio
- responsible
- risk
- saddle sb with sth
- social contract
- stick
- stick sb with sth
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