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lay someone up

to force someone to stay in bed or do very little. She's been laid up with the flu for a week. The accident laid him up with a broken leg.

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As he had furnished me very sufficiently with money for the extraordinary expenses of my lying in, I had everything very handsome about me, but did not affect to be gay or extravagant neither; besides, knowing my own circumstances, and knowing the world as I had done, and that such kind of things do not often last long, I took care to lay up as much money as I could for a wet day, as I called it; making him believe it was all spent upon the extraordinary appearance of things in my lying in. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context Clarke to lay up his boats here, and proceed by land to his place of destination, which was among the Spokan tribe of Indians, about a hundred and fifty miles distant. Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context Days it took, even though he lay up at night for but a few hours and left to chance the finding of meat directly on his trail. Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context More results

As he had furnished me very sufficiently with money for the extraordinary expenses of my lying in, I had everything very handsome about me, but did not affect to be gay or extravagant neither; besides, knowing my own circumstances, and knowing the world as I had done, and that such kind of things do not often last long, I took care to lay up as much money as I could for a wet day, as I called it; making him believe it was all spent upon the extraordinary appearance of things in my lying in.

The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context

Clarke to lay up his boats here, and proceed by land to his place of destination, which was among the Spokan tribe of Indians, about a hundred and fifty miles distant.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context

Days it took, even though he lay up at night for but a few hours and left to chance the finding of meat directly on his trail.

Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

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