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lay someone up to cause someone to be ill in bed. A broken leg laid me up for two months. Flu laid up everyone at work for a week or more. lay something up 1. to acquire and store something. Try to lay as much of it up as you can. I am trying to lay up some firewood for the winter. 2. [for something] to disable something. The accident laid up the ship for repairs. A wreck laid the bus up for months. lay somebody 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. 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. |
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