lie : Idioms & Phrases

• the Devil.

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• verb hang around idly
  lie about.
  
  • She did all the work while he lay around

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• verb hang around idly
  lie about.
  
  • She did all the work while he lay around

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• verb lie without sleeping
  
  • She was so worried, she lay awake all night long

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• noun a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying
  

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• verb be inactive, as if asleep
  
  • His work lay dormant for many years

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• verb assume a reclining position
  lie.
  
  • lie down on the bed until you feel better

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• verb originate (in)
  dwell; consist; lie.
  
  • The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country
• verb be in confinement for childbirth
  

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• verb wait in hiding to attack
  scupper; lurk; bushwhack; ambush; waylay; ambuscade.
  

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• verb keep a low profile, try to be inconspicuous
  
• verb to try to avoid detection especially by police
  
  • After we knock off that liquor store we'll have to lay low for a while

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• verb have sexual intercourse with
  love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; hump; make love; make out; get laid; have a go at it; bonk; eff; have sex; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
  
  • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
  • Adam knew Eve
  • Were you ever intimate with this man?

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• noun a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour
  slugabed.
  

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• noun a long stay in bed in the morning
  

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• noun young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables; seeds used as cereal
  velvet flower; tassel flower; Amaranthus caudatus.
  

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• (Bot.), a species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

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• adjective satellite having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level
  
  • low-lying clouds
• adjective satellite lying below the normal level
  sea-level.
  
  • a low-lying desert

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• noun the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
  ambush; ambuscade; trap.
  
• adjective satellite waiting in concealment; in ambush
  
  • an army lying in wait in the forest

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• noun criminal offense of making false statements under oath
  perjury; bearing false witness.
  

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• noun concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
  travail; childbed; labor; parturiency; confinement; labour.
  
  • she was in labor for six hours

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Ly"ing-in" noun

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1. The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.
2. The act of bearing a child.

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• verb suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively
  
  • I won't take this insult lying down

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• to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell."

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• to be helpless .

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• to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably.

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• (a person), to tell (him) that he lies.
• . (a) To charge with falsehood; as, the man gave him the lie. (b) To reveal to be false; as, a man's actions may give the lie to his words.

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• (Naut.), to coast, keeping land in sight.

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• to be imputable or chargeable to.

  If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. Dryden.

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• to be imputable to; as, the sin, blame, etc., lies at your door.

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• to be an object of affection, desire, or anxiety. Sir W. Temple.

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• to be in the power of.

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• . (a) To remain with; to be at hand; as, he has the manuscript lying by him . (b) To rest; to intermit labor; as, we lay by during the heat of the day.

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• to press or weigh; to bear hard.

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• to be in childbed; to bring forth young.

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• to be in the power of; to belong to. "As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men." Rom. xii. 18.

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• to lie flatly or abominably.

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• to be an obstacle or impediment.

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• to wait in concealment; to lie in ambush.

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• to remain in concealment or inactive. Slang

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• . (a) To depend on; as, his life lies on the result . (b) To bear, rest, press, or weigh on.

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• to remain unsold or unused; as, the goods are still lying on his hands; they have too much time lying on their hands.

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• to be imputed to.

  What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head. Shak.

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• to cease pulling, raising the oars out of water, but not boating them; to cease from work of any kind; to be idle; to rest.

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• . (a) To remain unpaid after the time when payment is due, as a note in bank. (b) To be deferred to some future occasion, as a resolution in a public deliberative body.

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• (Naut.), to stop or delay; especially, to head as near the wind as possible as being the position of greatest safety in a gale; said of a ship. Cf. To bring to, under Bring.

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• to be subject to; to suffer; to be oppressed by.

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• . (a) To lodge or sleep with. (b) To have sexual intercourse with . (c) To belong to; as, it lies with you to make amends.

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• etc., to detect and expose it, so as to put a stop to its currency; an expression probably derived from the former practice of shopkeepers, who were accustomed to nail bad or counterfeit pieces of money to the counter.

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• noun Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)
  Lie; Trygve Halvden Lie.
  

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• noun Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)
  Lie; Trygve Halvden Lie.
  

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• noun an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite)
  

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• a euphemism for such lies as one finds it convenient to tell, and excuses himself for telling.

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