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lean across

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lean across someone or something
to incline oneself across someone or something. She leaned across me to reach the telephone and spilled my wine. Laura leaned across the table and knocked my coffee over.
See also: across, lean


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Outside railway stations, in the street, outside restaurants on the three days a year we can comfortably eat there; you lean across to revel in your power, demonstrate your superior self-denial, and tell us how disgusting we are.
Additionally, the application of lean across more than one department is necessary if a company wants to sustain the results.
All four had to lean across a table to complete the handshake for photographers.
 
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