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lay upTo take out of active service.Rate it:

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lay upTo go out of active service.Rate it:

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lay your cards on the tableTo be ​honest about ​your ​feelings and ​intentions.Rate it:

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Lay Your Cards on the TableTo be open in discussing plans and facts, to reveal something candidly to someoneRate it:

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le navire a péri corps et biensThe ship went down with all hands on board.Rate it:

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les voleurs firent main basse sur tous mes effetsThe thieves laid hands on all my things.Rate it:

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librum de manibus ponereto lay down a book (vid. sect. XII. 3, note vestem deponere...).Rate it:

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librum in manus sumereto take up a book in one's hands.Rate it:

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luctum deponere (Phil. 14. 13. 34)to lay aside one's grief.Rate it:

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manus inicere, inferre, afferre alicuito lay violent hands on a person.Rate it:

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manus prensare (De Or. 1. 24. 112)to shake hands with voters in canvassing.Rate it:

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manus tollereto raise one's hands in astonishment.Rate it:

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manus, vim sibi afferreto lay hands on oneself.Rate it:

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many hands make light workA large number of people co-operating can perform tasks easily.Rate it:

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mãos ao altohands up !Rate it:

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mãos ao arhands up !Rate it:

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meritum alicuius in or erga aliquemwhat a man merits at another's hands.Rate it:

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mettez le couvertLay the cloth (for dinner).Rate it:

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mettez un couvert de plusPut another knife and fork (for another guest); Lay for one more.Rate it:

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mettre en coupe réglée(lit.) To cut down periodically (of forests); (fig.) To lay regularly under contribution.Rate it:

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nest eggA natural or artificial egg placed in a bird's nest, to encourage the bird to lay its own eggs there.Rate it:

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omnium rerum arbitrium alicui permittereto put the matter entirely in some one's hands.Rate it:

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on all foursOn one's hands and knees.Rate it:

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on one's handsBeing one's liability or responsibility; with which one is lumbered.Rate it:

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out of one’s handsNo longer responsible for or in one’s power to controlRate it:

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piece outTo lay out or present possible components of a whole.Rate it:

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play into someone's handsTo act, or to manage matters, to someone's advantage or benefit.Rate it:

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play possumTo feign death; to remain quiet and still to escape attention or remain undetected; to lay low.Rate it:

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press the fleshTo shake hands and socialize, especially in a political gathering.Rate it:

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prêter le flanc à ...To lay oneself open to...Rate it:

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prêter le flanc à des reprochesTo lay oneself open to reproaches.Rate it:

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proverbs run in pairsEvery proverb seems to be contradicted by another proverb with an opposed message, such as "too many cooks spoil the broth" and "many hands make light work."1863, Sir Richard Burton, Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains, vol. 1, Tinsley (London), p. 309:Moreover, all the world over, proverbs run in pairs, and pull both ways: for the most part one neutralizes, by contradiction, the other.Rate it:

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put her there (pronounced put 'er there)something said to someone when extending one's hand, inviting you to shake hands with them in agreement or sympathyRate it:

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put one's hands togetherTo clap; to applaud.Rate it:

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put your hands togetherClap; applaud.Rate it:

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putty in someone's handsOne who is readily manipulated or controlled by another person.Rate it:

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quiche-eaterIn computer programming circles, a person far removed from practice and concerned only with academic matters, unwilling to "get their hands dirty".Rate it:

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red-handedWith hands that are red.Rate it:

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rub one's hands togetherTo eagerly anticipate an activity.Rate it:

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Say Cry UncleTo lay down your arms or surrender, to accept defeatRate it:

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scrub inTo thoroughly wash one's hands and forearms in preparation for performing a surgery.Rate it:

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se faire raison à soi-mêmeTo take the law into one’s own hands.Rate it:

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shake handsTo grasp another person's hands as an expression of greeting, farewell, agreement, etc.Rate it:

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shake hands with the unemployedTo urinate.Rate it:

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shake hands with the unemployedTo masturbate.Rate it:

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shift offTo delay; to defer; to put off; to lay aside.Rate it:

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sit on one's handsOr situation.Rate it:

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slippery as an eelSo slippery that it is almost impossible to hold with one's hands.Rate it:

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somno or quieti se tradereto lay oneself down to sleepRate it:

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stick 'em upPut your hands in the air !Rate it:

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