saddle someone with

Idioms  

1. Burden someone with, as in Before he left on vacation, he saddled his assistant with many tasks he hadn't time to do himself. [Late 1600s]

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Example Sentences

Don’t saddle someone with your baggage just because.

From Slate

“At the same time, it’s a high burden and a horrific standard to saddle someone with that criminal record when they weren’t criminally negligent or reckless or intentional.”

From New York Times

“To saddle someone with a criminal record that could decimate their career, their family, their ability to provide for their family, have a future, is, on its face, not big of a price to pay when someone dies and there’s a tragic, wrongful, horrible death,” said Jeremy Saland, who represented the bus driver in the Manhattan trial.

From New York Times

“My son is just 18 and you don’t want to saddle someone with a place like this unless they are really passionate about it.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"Rather than saddle someone with being the person replacing Dave Niehaus, one of the options is to restructure what we're doing moving forward and make 2011 a transitional season," said Randy Adamack, the Mariners' vice president of communications.

From Seattle Times