| 词汇 | lay about somebody |
| 释义 | lay about somebodylay about somebody phrasal verbphr v literary or old-fashioned ATTACKto attack someone violently 袭击；猛打〔某人〕 SYN set about with He laid about his attackers with a stick. 他用棍子狠揍攻击他的人。 Examples from the Corpus lay about • The glacier lay about 2 miles away around a bend in the bay.• The locals still used the place as a tip, and piles of old tyres and other junk lay about.• With Miss Fingerstop, it lay about her.• They lay about higgledy-piggledy but were obviously intended to be set up as practice jumps.• Their droppings lay about like scattered handfuls of raisins.• Cod, for instance, lay about nine million eggs into the plankton.• There are a great number of myths that constantly need to be laid about school dinners.• These were anxious days in Richmond, which lay about sixty miles northwest of York town. → lay about somebody at lay2(PHRASAL VERB) |
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