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lie around (some place) to recline some place; to spend some time lazily in some place. I think I will just lie around the house all day. I need to lie around every now and then. 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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Don't let him lie around, licensed and legal, to pounce upon our youth. If we tarry here much longer, it will be in the fashion that the bees lie around the straw after the hive has been smoked for its honey. But, as thoughts are frozen and utterance benumbed, unless the speaker stand in some true relation with his audience, it may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive, though not the closest friend, is listening to our talk; and then, a native reserve being thawed by this genial consciousness, we may prate of the circumstances that lie around us, and even of ourself, but still keep the inmost Me behind its veil. |
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