Lay a glove on someone
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- Layamon
[ley-uh-muh n, lah-yuh-] /ˈleɪ ə mən, ˈlɑ yə-/ noun 1. flourished c1200, English poet and chronicler. /ˈlaɪəmən/ noun 1. 12th-century English poet and priest; author of the Brut, a chronicle providing the earliest version of the Arthurian story in English
- Lay-analyst
noun 1. a psychoanalyst who does not have a medical degree. noun 1. a person without medical qualifications who practises psychoanalysis
- Lay a trip on someone
verb phrase To attribute something to someone; burden someone with something; accuse someone of something: But if you try and lay a trip on somebody through psychoanalysis, it’s nonsense/ Don’t lay this scene on me. I did the best I could/ Vote for Walker. But don’t lay any undue trips on him (1960s+ Counterculture fr […]
- Lay at rest
Also, lay to rest; set at rest. Satisfy, settle, as in I’ll take care of it; you can set your mind at rest, or The arbitrator is sure to lay these questions to rest. [ Late 1300s ] Also see: lay to rest
- Lay a wager
see under lay odds