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  • 41Lay Down Your Burdens — Battlestar Galactica episode Episode no. Season 2 Episode 19 20 Directed by Michael Rymer Written …

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  • 42lay (your) cards on the table — lay/put (your) cards on the table to tell someone honestly what you think or what you plan to do. I ll put my cards on the table: I don t like the way you ve been behaving. She thought it was time to put her cards on the table and tell him that… …

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  • 43lay - lie — ◊ lay Lay is a transitive verb, and it is also a past tense of another verb, lie. To lay something somewhere means to put it there carefully. Take the top sheet and lay it in the centre of the bed. The other forms of lay are lays, laying, laid …

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  • 44lay on the table — This phrase occurs in the official records of meetings or deliberations of various government bodies. If a proposal or motion is laid on the table, it is essentially a euphemism, meaning that nothing further will be done in this matter or we are… …

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  • 45lay / lie —    Lay is a transitive verb, which means it takes an object. It means to set or put down flat : Gwendolyn laid child in the crib, or Lay a book on the table, please. Its forms are lay, lays, laid, has laid, and is laying.    Lie is an… …

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  • 46lay / lie —    Lay is a transitive verb, which means it takes an object. It means to set or put down flat : Gwendolyn laid child in the crib, or Lay a book on the table, please. Its forms are lay, lays, laid, has laid, and is laying.    Lie is an… …

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  • 47lay aside — I verb abandon, continue, defer, delay, discard, disclaim, discount, dismiss, disregard, drop, exclude, forestall, forgo, hold, hold up, ignore, isolate, keep, lay by, lay in a stock, pass over, pick out, postpone, preserve, pretermit, put aside …

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  • 48table a motion — lay aside a proposal for future debate, postpone a proposal until the future …

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  • 49lay — lay1 W2S1 [leı] v the past tense of ↑lie 1 lay 2 lay2 v past tense and past participle laid [leıd] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(put somebody/something down)¦ 2 lay bricks/carpet/concrete/cables etc 3¦(bird/insect etc)¦ 4¦(table)¦ 5 lay the foundations/ …

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  • 50Table (parliamentary) — NOTOC In parliamentary procedure, the motion to table or more properly, to lay on the table , is a proposal to suspend consideration of the pending motion. The circumstances under which this motion is appropriate are the subject of considerable… …

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